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• The gods looked with favour on superior courage. -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, iv, 17
• He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Annales, vi, 39, 17...
• Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire of glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, iv, 6...
• Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give.
  Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive....
• He [Tiberius] upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Annales, vi, 52 (46)...
• He's not stupid; he's possessed by a retarded ghost.
• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
  -- Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2 -- Elegies, II, xix, 32...
• There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes.
  For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink...
• He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he would have resented it extremely.
  He would have said that what he did was done entirely for the good of the country....