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Tacitus on Justice

b. 117

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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.

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