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The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] - Annales (IV, 70) [Hatred : Proverbs] The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.] - Annales (V, 2) [Memory] Neither above nor below his business. [Lat., Par negotiis neque supra.] - Annales (VI, 39) [Business] Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.] - Annales (XI, 29) [Power : Proverbs] Things forbidden have a secret charm. [Lat., Praevalent illicita.] - Annales (XIII, 1) [Pleasure] Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.] - Annales (XIII, 20) [Prudence] Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement. [Lat., Tum, ut adsolet in amore et ira, jurgia, preces, exprobratio, satisfactio.] - Annales (XIII, 44) [Love] Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. [Lat., Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.] - Annales (XIV, 44) [Punishment] Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.] - Annales (XV, 2) [Fame] Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] - Annales (XV, 31) [Judges : Law] Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. [Lat., Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior est.] - Annales (XV, 53) [Power] Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. [Lat., Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri.] - Annales (XV, 59) [Fear] A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere, Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.] - Annales (XV, 68) [Jesting : Satire] Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.] - Annales (XVI, 18) [Idleness] Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavour. [Lat., Vetera semper in laude, presentia in fastidio.] - De Oratoribus (18) [Age] [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] - De Oratoribus (46) [Liberty] [Eloquence] the mistress of all the arts. [Lat., Omnium artium domina [eloquentia]. - De Oratoribus (XXXII) [Eloquence] It is the eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [Lat., Magna eloquentia, sicut flamma, materia alitur, et motibus excitatur et urendo clarescit.] - De Oratoribus (XXXVI) [Eloquence] The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.] - Historioe (bk. II, 70) [Circumstance] The proper qualities of a general are judgment and deliberation. [Lat., Ratio et consilium propriae ducis artes.] - Historioe (III, 20) [War] The gods are on the side of the stronger. [Lat., Deos fortioribus adesse.] - Historioe (IV, 17) [War] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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