So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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More Tacitus Quotes
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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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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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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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