Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSChristianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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