Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUSIn valor there is hope.
TACITUSA desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TACITUSThe desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUSZealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
TACITUSCandor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSFalsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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