Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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