Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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