No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSEven for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
More Tacitus Quotes
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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In valor there is hope.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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