No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSThe 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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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