Tacitus

In valor there is hope.

— Tacitus

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

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Custom adapts itself to expediency.

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They make solitude, which they call peace.

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I am my nearest neighbour.

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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

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Conspicuous by his absence.

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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

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“He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder.”

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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that…

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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence…

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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

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“Not that I would reject those resemblances of the human figure which are engraven in brass or marbles but as their originals…

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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to…

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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen…

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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or…

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“fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against…

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos…

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They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was…

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“Think of it. Fifteen whole years-no small part of a mans life.-taken from us-all the most energetic have fallen to the cruelty…

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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one…

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“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We,…

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“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than…

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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

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Whatever is unknown is magnified.

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They make a desert and call it peace.

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A bad peace is even worse than war.

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