The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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