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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. - [Envy] When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. - [Law] Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. - [Proverbs] Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.] - Agricola (II) [Change] Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. - Agricola (IX) [Rumor] Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] - Agricola (XLI) [Flattery] It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] - Agricola (XLII, 4) [Hatred : Proverbs] As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory. [Lat., Et ipse quidem, quamquam medio in spatio integrae aetatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum aevum peregit.] - Agricola (XLIV) [Glory] Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.] - Agricola (XXX) [Ignorance] 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. [Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.] - Agricola (XXX), ascribing the speech to Galgacus, Britain's leader against the Romans [Peace] An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] - Agricola (XXXIII) [Death] We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.] - Annales (bk. I, 15) [Fortune] 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.] - Annales (bk. I, 2) [Virtue] Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. [Lat., Victores victosque numquam solida fide coalescere.] - Annales (bk. II, 7) [Victory] To prefer victory to peace. [Lat., Victoriam malle quam pacem.] - Annales (bk. III, 60) [Victory] 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.] - Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia [Absence] Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] - founded on Annales (bk. V, 6) [Experience : Proverbs] A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] - Annales (bk. VI, 22) [Public] The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.] - Annales (bk. VI, 22) [Public] He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies. - Annales (bk. VI, ch. XLVI) [Medicine] Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. [Lat., Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.] - Annales (I, 1) [Freedom] Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.] - Annales (I, 21) [Power] Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.] - Annales (I, 30) [Power : Proverbs] In the opinion of all men he would have been regarded as capable of governing, if he had never governed. [Lat., Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset.] - Annales (I, 49) [Government] Laying aside his resentment, he stores it up to bring it forward with increased bitterness. [Lat., Odia in longum jaciens, quae reconderet, auctaque promeret.] - Annales (I, 69) [Revenge] Displaying page 3 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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