We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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