Tacitus

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

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The worst hatred is that of relatives.

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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In all things there is a law of cycles.

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They terrify lest they should fear.

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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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“A bad peace is worse than war.”

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Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases.

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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

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None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every…

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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and…

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“…that nothing is so weak and unstable as a reputation for power which is not based on one's own strength.”

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

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It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

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None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

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It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis…

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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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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat.,…

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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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“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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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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Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be…

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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;…

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

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The most seditious is the most cowardly.

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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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Posterity gives every man his true value.

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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

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