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• 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)...
• 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....
• The gods looked with favour on superior courage. -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, iv, 17
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 39...
• He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, ii, 80...
• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Cornelius Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.
• Think of your ancestors and your posterity. -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Agricola, 32
• Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. -- Sir Herbert Samuel