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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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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.]
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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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