Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSThe gods are on the side of the stronger.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSRemedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUSLaws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSThe lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TACITUSA woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
TACITUSWe are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
TACITUSWho the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
TACITUSWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSEven honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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