The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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He (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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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