Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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