In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUSThe lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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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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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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