Tacitus Quotes
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Tacitus
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
Albert Einstein
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It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
Alfred Kinsey
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Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'
Eliot Spitzer
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
Bernard Moitessier
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Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
Evan Esar
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
Gary Numan
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
Edgardo Osorio
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
Haris Pasovic
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Tacitus
