When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSIn valor there is hope.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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