The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
TACITUSThey terrify lest they should fear.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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