This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
TACITUSWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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