Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSLaws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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