It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSModest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
TACITUSPerdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSThe 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.]
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSAll inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUSWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
TACITUSThe desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TACITUSAbuse 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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