Tacitus Quotes - Page 3

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

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  May, Resentment, Shows

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• All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

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  Growth, Decay, Body

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• They terrify lest they should fear.

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  Should

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• So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

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  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus, transl. by G. J. Acheson, chapter 4, paragraph 22, final sentence, p. 72, 1938.

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• People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

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  People, Flattery, Depends

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• By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

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  Men, Talent, Authority

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• Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

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  Lines, Killing, Difficult

  "Histories". Book by Tacitus. Book I, 39,

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• Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

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  Reform, Rich, Poor

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• A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

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  Men, Work Out, Ruins

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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

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  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, History

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• Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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  Rome, Empires, Great Empires

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• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

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  Struggle, Power, Politics

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, II. 74,

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• Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Long

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.132, Modern Library

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• The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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  Family, Hatred, Society

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 70,

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

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  Enemy, Flattery, Kind

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• A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
  [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

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  Ultras, Dare, Cowardly

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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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  Courage, Fear, Bravery

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• The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

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  Wicked, Purpose, Easier

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• Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.

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  Support, Stronger

  Histories, bk.4, ch.17.

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• Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

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  Fear, Men, Feelings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Annales, XV. 59, 1922.

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• More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

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  Giving, Trying, Faults

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.317, Modern Library

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• I am my nearest neighbour.

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  Neighbour

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• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

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  Wise, Men, Lust

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• Rumor is not always wrong

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  Rumor, Always Wrong

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• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

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  Fall, Hands, Coward

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