We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
TACITUSA cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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