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Politics Quotes by Tacitus
- In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
- The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
- Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
- Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
- Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
- Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
- The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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