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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 etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

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  Bravery, Despair, Fortune

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• There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

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  Escaping, Brave, Trouble

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• The gods are on the side of the stronger.

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  Stronger, Sides

  Histories bk. 4, ch. 17 See Bussy-Rabutin 1; Frederick the Great 1; Turenne 1

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• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

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  Winning, Agreement

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• We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
  [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

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  Age, Ancient

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• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

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  Modesty, Lost, Chastity

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• There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

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  Integrity, Favors, Virtue

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

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  Hate, Power, Inheritance

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• Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
  [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

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  Change, Growth, Body

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• Conspicuous by his absence.

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  Absence

  F. R. D. Goodyear, Tacitus (2004). “The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 2, Annals 1.55-81 and Annals 2”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

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  Exclusion, Moral, Ancient

  Cornelius Tacitus (1912). “Tacitus, The Histories”

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• Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

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  Wisdom, Foundation, Politics

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• To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

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  Art, Peace, Solitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 588-91, Agricola, XXX, 1922.

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• The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

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  Hate, Hatred, Violent

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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., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]

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  Thinking, Hatred, Benefits

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• It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

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  Flames, Matter, Eloquence

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• The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

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  Ocean, Our World, Race

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.2, Charles River Editors

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• Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
  [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

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  Power, Council, Cautious

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• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

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  Integrity, Opposites, Honor

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• What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

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  Today, Precedent, Hereafter

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus. Book XI, 24,

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• So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

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  Encouragement, Errors, Events

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

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  Nature, Freedom, Animal

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, IV. 17,

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• It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

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  Appreciation, Common, Esteem

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• We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

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  Struggle, Adversity, Wealth

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• It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

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  Hate, Hatred, Humans

  "The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus".

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