When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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