“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”**
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”***
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*Histories, Book I, 1
**Annals Book III, 27
***Book XV, 50, in his account of Subrius Flavus’ passing thought of assassinating Nero while the emperor sang on stage.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus ... c. AD 56 – c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. ... He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus