Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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In valor there is hope.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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