So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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Fear 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.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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