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Justice is a constant and perpetual will to render to everyone that which is his own.

— Justinian I

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The safety of the State is the highest law.

I pardon your offence against me. Pray that God also may pardon you.

We have good hopes that God will grant us to restore the authority over the remaining countries which the ancient Romans possessed to the limit of both oceans and lost by subsequent neglect.

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