Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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[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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