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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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It is of eloquence as of a flame it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it and it brightens as it burns.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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