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• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Cornelius Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.
• The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
  -- Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-117 CE) "Annals" Ch. III...
• They make a desert and call it peace." -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
• And tomorrow will be like today, only more so. -- Isaiah 56:12 [NSV]
• Two heads are more numerous than one.
• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Politic...