No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The 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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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All 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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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