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

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

Tacitus
Character, Fame, Modest

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.

Tacitus
Example, Fields, Precedent

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,

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

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

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.

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

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

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Views, Multitudes

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

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

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

Tacitus
Peace, War

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.]

Tacitus
Age, Example, Virtue

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

Tacitus
Believe, Men, Good Man

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.

Tacitus
Names, Twenties, Cassius

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.

Tacitus
Saws, Manners, Glances

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