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Annalist Inspirational Quotes (158)

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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Tacitus
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Tacitus
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Tacitus
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He who has two languages has two souls.
Quintus Ennius
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Tacitus
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Tacitus
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
Tacitus
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The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
Tacitus
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
Tacitus
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Tacitus
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Tacitus
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
Tacitus
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
Marcus Terentius Varro
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
Tacitus
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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.
Tacitus
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
Tacitus
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
Quintus Ennius
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
Tacitus
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