The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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