Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSLaws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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 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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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