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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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