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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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• They make a desert and call it peace.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Desert

  Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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• Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

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  Tongue, Hours, Danger

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 62, AD 117.

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

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  History, Reign, Ability

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• The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

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  Marvellous

  Tacitus (2016). “Agricola: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae- English-Latin Edition”, p.64, M&J

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• It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

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  Men, Compulsion, Nature Of Man

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• A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

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  Fallen, Shrinks

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• Experience teaches.
  [Lat., Experientia docet.]

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  Experience, Teach

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• Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Wish

  "Annales", I. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

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  Law, Found, Precedent

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

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  Reputation, Dangerous

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• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

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  Men, Excellence, Moral

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,

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• No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

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  Fashion, Laughing, Vices

  Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”

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• In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

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  Men, Quiet, Virtue

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.141, London : Macmillan

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• Whatever is unknown is magnified.

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• This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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  History, Evil, Deeds

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.25, Modern Library

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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 death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

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  Leader, Reign, Christ

  Annals, bk.15, ch.44.

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• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
  [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

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  Power, Guilt, Purpose

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

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  Evil, Office, Deeds

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• Everything unknown is magnified.
  [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]

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  Ignorance

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• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

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  Bears, Pleasure, Difficult

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• Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

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  Flattery, Labor, Servility

  Cornelius Tacitus (1858). “The History. Germany. Agricola. Dialogue on orators”, p.1

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• Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

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  Animal, Giving, Dumb

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• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

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  Habit, Expediency, Customs

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

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  Pain, Valor, Contempt

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