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• Conspicuous by his absence.

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  Absence

  F. R. D. Goodyear, Tacitus (2004). “The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 2, Annals 1.55-81 and Annals 2”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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  Safe

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.17, London : Macmillan

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• The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

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  Evil, Tasks, Noble

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• We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
  [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

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  Age, Ancient

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• Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
  [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

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  Leader, Quality, Ratios

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• Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
  [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

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  Power, Council, Cautious

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• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

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  Passion, Justice, Lust

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, XV. 53,

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• It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

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  Flames, Matter, Eloquence

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• Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

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  War, Shameful

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• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

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  Winning, Agreement

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• The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

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  Hate, Hatred, Violent

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• There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

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  Confidence

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.90, London : Macmillan

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• So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

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  Encouragement, Errors, Events

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

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  Art, Peace, Solitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 588-91, Agricola, XXX, 1922.

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• It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

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  Appreciation, Common, Esteem

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• The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

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  Genius, Talent, Influence

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.141, Modern Library

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• It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

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  Hate, Men, Mind

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• They make solitude, which they call peace.

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  Solitude

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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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  Men, Fame, Reluctant

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
  [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

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  Bravery, Despair, Fortune

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• The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

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  Ocean, Our World, Race

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.2, Charles River Editors

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• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

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  Integrity, Opposites, Honor

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• In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.
  [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

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  Law, Kind, All Things

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• Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

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  Wisdom, Foundation, Politics

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• Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

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  Law, Libertarian, Commonwealth

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.100, Modern Library

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