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

Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes

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

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

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

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous.