Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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