Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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In valor there is hope.
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