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Truth is often attended with danger.

— Ammianus Marcellinus

Pericula veritati sæpe contigua.

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No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

The plain and simple religion of the Christians he obscured by a dotard's superstition, and by subtle and involved discussions about dogma.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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