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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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