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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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