Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
TACITUSHe (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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