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

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

Tacitus
Age, Ancient

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

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

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus
Time, Old Things, Age

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

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