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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.


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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
TACITUS The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUS When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans...
GARY F EVANS... Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Laws of Sowing;The sower sows quality seeds,because he knows quality seeds begeths quality harve...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
THE LAWS OF MANU Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
KOLLONTAI ALEXANDRA What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
FRIEDRICH ENGELS The more laws, the more offenders.
THOMAS FULLER Governor Bush abdicated. He said it's not his problem. But he is the chief executive officer of this...
JANET RENO We are the Drifters and Dancers, Sunworshippers and Risk Takers. The Dreamers, The Lovers, Believers...
FRANKIE KERR-DINEEN Clearly, people in the state of Colorado are fed with up laws that push people to using alcohol inst...
MASON TVERT The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
RUTH RENDELL When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
LAO-TSE The more laws, the less justice.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The more laws, the less justice.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO DE OFFICIIS The more laws the less justice.
PROVERB The more laws, the less justice.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The more laws the less justice
GERMAN PROVERB Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries C...
PETER WATTS For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
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THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords...
THE BIBLE The highest form of wisdom is kindness
THE TALMUD The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
THE TALMUD Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and ...
THE TALMUD Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
THE TALMUD Sheep follow sheep.
THE TALMUD Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica...
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TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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