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The result justifies the deed.

Exitus acta probat.
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Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes uiros.

seneca the younger

— Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.De Providentia (On Providence): cap. 5, line 9

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There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon

— The King v. Inhabitants of Eriswell (1790), 3 T. R. 722.

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Exitus acta probat.


— The result justifies the deed.
— Ovid, Heroides (The Heroines), II, 85

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There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.


— Lord Kenyon, The King v. Inhabitants of Eriswell (1790), 3 T. R. 722.

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Exitus acta probat.


— The result justifies the deed.
— Variant translation: The ends justify the means.
— Heroides, II, 85.

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Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes uiros.


— De Providentia (On Providence): cap. 5, line 9

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