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Their fight was directed against despotic arbitrari - ness which imprisoned people in order to gratify per - sonal wishes and desires, which burdened the subjects with taxes in order to waste money on luxurious build - ings, which sacrificed the lives of peoples in wars for prestige and fame, and which maintained the irrational rule of the Church in order to keep people quiet and obedient.
MACHIAVELLISM FELIX GILBERT 1968
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Velim te arbitrari med haec verba, frater, 120 meai fidei tuaique rei causa facere, ut aequom est germanam sororem. quamquam haud falsa sum nos odiosas haberi; nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemur, nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse aut hodie dicunt mulierem aut ullo in saeclo.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Secede huc nunciam, si videtur, procul. ne arbitri dicta nostra arbitrari queant 220 neu permanet palam haec nostra fallacia. nam doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas, sed malum maxumum, si id palam provenit.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Video hercle ego te me arbitrari, Euclio, hominem idoneum, quem senecta aetate ludos facias, haud merito meo.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Aliter enim ac sese res habeat arbitrari ab integritate scientiae credis esse diuersum.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Quid est autem aliud arbitrari ideo deum futura quoniam sunt euentura prouidere, quam putare quae olim acciderunt causam summae illius esse prouidentiae?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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* Societatis arctissimum vinculum est magis arbitrari esse contra naturam, hominem homini detrahere sui commodi causa, quam omnia incommoda subire: [485] 1
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820
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[11] Societatis arctissimum vinculum est magis arbitrari esse contra naturam, hominem homini detrahere sui commodi causa, quam omnia incommoda subire: "This is the strongest bond of society, to account it to be more against nature for any man to wrong another for his own advantage, than to undergo the greatest inconveniences."
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820
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Cicero, doubting of immortality (for so wise a man must have doubted of that which had such slender arguments to support it), could assert it as the office of wisdom, _Humanas res despicere atque infra se positas arbitrari.
Amelia — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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Cicero, doubting of immortality (for so wise a man must have doubted of that which had such slender arguments to support it), could assert it as the office of wisdom, _Humanas res despicere atque infra se positas arbitrari.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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