To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TACITUSFormerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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