So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSHe (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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