The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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