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With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed.

— Julius Caesar

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As a rule in extreme peril fear admits no sense of pity.

The principal point of their doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another.

The principal point of their [Druids] doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another.

In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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