“Good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere.”

— Tacitus , book Germania

End of chapter 19, http://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitus-germania-5.php
Germania (98)

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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus-germ-latin.html#19]

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Roman senator and historian 54–120

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