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“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
― Tacitus

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.”
― Tacitus

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic