Tacitus - Agricola

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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

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To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

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He [Nerva] has united things long incompatible, the principate and liberty.

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To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire, they make a wilderness and call it peace.

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Those whose habit it is to admire what is forbidden ought to know that there can be great men even under bad emperors.

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Under Domitian not the smallest part of one's misery was to see and be seen.

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It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.

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Think, therefore, as you advance to battle, at once of your ancestors and your posterity.

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Thou wast indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendor of thy life, but in the opportune moment of thy death.

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You were indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the distinction of your life, but also in the lucky timing of your death.

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Fortune favored him... in the opportune moment of his death.

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Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare.

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Because they didn't know better, they called it "civilization," when it was part of their slavery.

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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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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

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

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