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

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  Experience, Teach

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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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• 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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• 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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  Barbarians, Firsts, England

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

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

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  Reputation, Dangerous

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

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  Fallen, Shrinks

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

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  Ignorance

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• Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

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  Animal, Giving, Dumb

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

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  Bears, Pleasure, Difficult

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• Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

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  Pain, Valor, Contempt

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• A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

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  Inspirational, Bitter, Jest

  "Annales". XV. 68, AD 117.

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• The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

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  Wise, Desire, Lasts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan

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