Tacitus Quotes - Page 8

• Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
  [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

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  Hate, Power, Next

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• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

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  Men, Lasts, Fame

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• Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

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  Men, History, Giving

  "The Works of Cornelius Tacitus: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements".

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• None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

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  Mourning, Rejoice, Mourn

  "The Annals & The Histories".

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• When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
  [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

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  Men, Punishment, Talent

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• It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

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  Believe, Deities

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• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

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  Character, Age, Noble

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

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• Lo antiguo siempre goza de buena reputación, lo actual de mala fama.

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  Time, Old Things, Age

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• Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
  [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

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  Portraits, Cassius, Brutus

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• Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

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  Peace, Wilderness

  Speech of the British chieftain Calgacus, before the battle of Mons Graupius, referring to the Romans. Agricola, ch.30.

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• All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
  [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

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  Business, Firsts, Inconsiderate

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• Todas las empresas que se emprenden con celo indiscreto pueden llevarse a cabo con gran vigor al principio, pero es seguro que al final se derrumbarán.

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  Vigor, May, Firsts

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• We are corrupted by good fortune.
  [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

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  Fortune, Good Fortune

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• War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

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  War, Party, Conquest

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.448, Modern Library

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• Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

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  Winning, Benches, Opponents

  Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb (1911). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps”

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• They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia .

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  Father, Names, Greek

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

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• Si debemos caer, debemos afrontar el peligro con valentía.
  [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]

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  Fall, Danger, Should

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• Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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  Vigor, Delay, Gains

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• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

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  Ignorance, Reality, Thinking

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• This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

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  Men, Expression, History

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• Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
  [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

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  Fall, Law, Ends

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• The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
  [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

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  Views, Multitudes

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• All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

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  Exclusion, Moral, Ancient

  Cornelius Tacitus (1912). “Tacitus, The Histories”

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• The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
  [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

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  Powerful, Remembrance, Ill

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• Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

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  Zealous, Ends, Commencement

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