Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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