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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

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Tacitus
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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