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• They make solitude, which they call peace.

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  Solitude

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• It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

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  Hate, Men, Mind

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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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• Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

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  Law, Libertarian, Commonwealth

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.100, Modern Library

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• The changeful change of circumstances.
  [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

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  Circumstances

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• Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

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  Lost, Britain

  Referring to Agricola's conquest of Britain, and the loss of much of it under Domitian. Histories, bk.1, ch.2.

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• The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

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  Dwelling, Race, Tree

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• Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

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  Adventure, Hazards, Fool

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• The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

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  Army, Arms, Pay

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• It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

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  Believe, Deities

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• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

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  Belief, Absence, Absent Mindedness

  "Historiae (Histories)". Book by Tacitus, circa 104-109 AD.

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

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  Wise, Weakness, Lasts

  "Annales" (AD 117), IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 256-259), 1922.

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• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

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  Rome, Cities, Shameless

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• It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

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  Grieving, Becoming

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• The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

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  Passion, Men, Desire

  "Histories". Book by Tacitus. Book IV, 6,

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

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  Power, Legion

  "The Annals & The Histories".

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• It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

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  Hate, Disposition, Humans

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• Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

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  Men, Rumor, Doe

  "Agricola", IX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 688, 1922.

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• The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

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  Science, Grace, Concerned

  Cornelius Tacitus (1872). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. with Notes”, p.439

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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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• Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

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  Haste, Uncertainty, Falsehood

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• [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
  [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

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  Children, Liberty, Fool

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• By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

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  Political, Politics, Ruling

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• Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

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  Men, Design, Infinite

  Herodotus, Tacitus (2010). “Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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