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Quote from Cornelius Tacitus,


"[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.

[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]"


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Cornelius Tacitus (more quotes by Cornelius Tacitus or books by/about Cornelius Tacitus)


(55-117 A.D.) Senator and historian of the Roman Empire

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Liberty

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