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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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