Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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