Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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