“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Paulus, L, 17

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Qui tacet non utique fatetur, sed tamen verum est eum non negare.

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Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BC

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