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You punish crimes committed, with us the thought of crime is sin; you fear the voice of witnesses, we the sole voice of conscience.

— Marcus Minucius Felix

Vos scelera admissa punitis, apud nos et cogitare peccare est; vos conscios timetis, nos etiam conscientiam solam.

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