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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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  Success, Ambition, Men

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.81, London : Macmillan

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• Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
  [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

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  Men, Giving, Honor

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• Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

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  Beautiful, Style, Veins

  "The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory".

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• Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
  [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

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  Character, Fame, Modest

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• All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

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  Example, Fields, Precedent

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• Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

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  Punishment, Suffering, Example

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus. Book XIV, 44,

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• Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

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  Life, Usual, Lovers

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• To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.

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  Men, Escaping, Battle

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.6, Charles River Editors

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• The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Latin

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• It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
  [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

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  Peace, War

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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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  Age, Example, Virtue

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• You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

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  Believe, Men, Good Man

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• Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

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  Saws, Manners, Glances

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• The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.

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  Names, Twenties, Cassius

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