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The armies most successful in war are those in which every combatant has a clear conscience.

— Flavius Josephus

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Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.

Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there … this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.

And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.

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