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It is found by experience that...

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

I am my nearest neighbour....

I am my nearest neighbour.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Keen at the start, but careles...

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

That cannot be safe which is n...

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

There can never be a complete ...

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

The brave and bold persist eve...

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Reckless adventure is the fool...

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

The word liberty has been fals...

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appe...

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Perdomita Britannia et statim ...

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Deos fortioribus adesse. The g...

Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Miseram pacem vel bello bene m...

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Auctor nominis eius Christus,T...

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

The Germans themselves I shoul...

The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

They even say that an altar de...

They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia .

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

To abandon your shield is the ...

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.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

The images of twenty of the mo...

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.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

What is today supported by pre...

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Tacitus has written an entire ...

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.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Crime, once exposed, has no re...

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus 281 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....