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• No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

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  Fashion, Laughing, Vices

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

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• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

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  Habit, Expediency, Customs

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

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  Blood, Guilt, Politics

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• Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

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  Violence, Malice

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• More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

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  Giving, Trying, Faults

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.317, Modern Library

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• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

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  Bears, Pleasure, Difficult

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• Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

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  Men, Fame, Indolence

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, XVI. 18, AD 117.

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• A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

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  Inspirational, Bitter, Jest

  "Annales". XV. 68, AD 117.

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• If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

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  Military, Fall, Fate

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• The worst hatred is that of relatives.

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  Hatred, Worst, Relative

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• Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

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  Disease, Operations, Remedy

  "Complete Works of Tacitus".

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• Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

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• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

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  Hate, Power, Inheritance

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• There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

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  Integrity, Favors, Virtue

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• Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

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  Flattery, Labor, Servility

  Cornelius Tacitus (1858). “The History. Germany. Agricola. Dialogue on orators”, p.1

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• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

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  Modesty, Lost, Chastity

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• Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

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  Animal, Giving, Dumb

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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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  Art, Years, Medicine

  "Annals", Book VI, Chapter XLVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p.502-04, 1922.

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• There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

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  Escaping, Brave, Trouble

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• Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

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  Hurt, Calumny Is, Giving

  Cornelius Tacitus (1830). “Tacitus”, p.313

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• The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

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  Wise, Desire, Lasts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan

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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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  Evil, Office, Deeds

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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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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  Change, Growth, Body

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• The gods are on the side of the stronger.

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  Stronger, Sides

  Histories bk. 4, ch. 17 See Bussy-Rabutin 1; Frederick the Great 1; Turenne 1

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• Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

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  Liberty

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