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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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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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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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