Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSIn a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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 cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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 gods are on the side of the stronger.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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