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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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