A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUSWhen men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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