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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TacitusTacitus War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TacitusTacitus [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TacitusTacitus Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TacitusTacitus Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TacitusTacitus In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
TacitusTacitus It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TacitusTacitus In valor there is hope.
TacitusTacitus It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
TacitusTacitus The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
TacitusTacitus In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TacitusTacitus It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TacitusTacitus It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TacitusTacitus Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
TacitusTacitus When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TacitusTacitus All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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