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• It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

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  Men, Compulsion, Nature Of Man

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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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  Men, Quiet, Virtue

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.141, London : Macmillan

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• We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
  [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

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  Force, Accomplish, Prudence

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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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  Freedom, Thinking, Wish

  "Annales", I. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• They make a desert and call it peace.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Desert

  Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

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  Law, Found, Precedent

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

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  Tongue, Hours, Danger

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 62, AD 117.

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• Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

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  Pain, Valor, Contempt

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• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

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  History, Reign, Ability

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• So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

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  Doubt, Obscurity, Facts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1860). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...”, p.119

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• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
  [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

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  Power, Guilt, Purpose

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• None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
  [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

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  Grief, Heart, Grieving

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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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  Barbarians, Firsts, England

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

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• They terrify lest they should fear.

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  Should

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• The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

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  Marvellous

  Tacitus (2016). “Agricola: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae- English-Latin Edition”, p.64, M&J

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• Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

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  Adversity, Judgment

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• An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

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  Reputation, Dangerous

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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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  Proof, Harm, Valour

  Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”

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• No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

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  Hatred, Bitter, Relation

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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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  Flames, Lust, Dominion

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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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  Leader, Reign, Christ

  Annals, bk.15, ch.44.

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• A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

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  Fallen, Shrinks

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• This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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  History, Evil, Deeds

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.25, Modern Library

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• Everything unknown is magnified.
  [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]

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  Ignorance

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• Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

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  Ends, Careless

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