Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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![Tacitus Quote - Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/modest-fame-is-not-to-be-despised-by-the-highest-c.jpg)
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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