In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TACITUSThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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 worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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