#orr

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #must #numerous #state #very

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #most #multiplied #state #then

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #misfortunes #pleasure #remain

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #measure #misfortune #pleasure

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system. ↗

— Bob Taft

#frozen #jobs #remain #system #tax

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#correspondents #else #i #newspaper #newspapers

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. ↗

— Gay Talese

#being #day #get #his #hope

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job. ↗

— Jim Talent

#crises #effort #executive #experience #given

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#die #forever #life #live #tomorrow

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#children #feeds #his #home #loves