Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated you will be thought to have deserved it.
-- Tacitus
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
-- Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
-- Tacitus
And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
-- Tacitus
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
-- Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
-- Tacitus
They destroy everything and then call it peace.
-- Tacitus
It is part of human nature to hate those whom you have injured.
-- Tacitus
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