Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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 love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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