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[highlight-text]The more corrupt the state the more laws.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[highlight-text]If the chief party whether it be the people or the army or the nobility which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity be corrupt you must follow their humor and indulge them and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
Machiavelli