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Annalist Inspirational Quotes (158)

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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
Quintus Ennius
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Tacitus
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
Tacitus
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
Tacitus
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Tacitus
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
Tacitus
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
Tacitus
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Tacitus
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
Tacitus
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