What did Tacitus mean by: Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. - Tacitus Historian · Italy Copy
+ A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Bitter, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Fortune, Good Fortune, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Accomplish, Force, Prudence, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Honor, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Generosity, Moderation, Ruins, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Freedom, Wish, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Cities, Rome, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, History, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Children have neither past nor future;they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
