So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSCustom adapts itself to expediency.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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 seditious is the most cowardly.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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