Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSThe 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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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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