When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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