Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSSecure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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In valor there is hope.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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