“One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.”

—  Plautus , Truculentus

Truculentus, Act II, sc. 6, line 8.
Truculentus

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Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt.

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