It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
More Tacitus Quotes
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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