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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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