When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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