We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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In valor there is hope.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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