It is better to endure every evil than to consent to evil.

Melius est omnia mala pati quam malo concentire.

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J. W. Jones, A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which occur in Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England', &c. (Philadelphia, PA: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co, 1889) p. 5

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