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| "Haud semper erat fama." (Rumour is not always wrong.) -- Tacitus, in: Agricola "Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant." (They make it a wilderness and call it peace.) -- Tacitus, speaking of the destruction of war, in: Agricola "Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris." (It is part of human nature to hate the person you have hurt.) -- Tacitus, in: Agricola "Elegantiae arbiter" (The arbiter of taste) -- Tacitus, speaking of Petronius, in: Annals "Experientia docuit" (Experience has taught.) -- Tacitus, in: The Histories |
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