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Annalist Inspirational Quotes (158)

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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?
Quintus Ennius
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
Quintus Ennius
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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