Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSPerdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSNone grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSWhen men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSAn eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TACITUSThe grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSAll 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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