Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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