Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
TACITUSCorruptisima republica plurimae leges.
TACITUSChristianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSLaws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUSFlattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSEven honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
TACITUS[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TACITUSMiseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
TACITUSThe 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.]
TACITUSIn a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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