Maxioms by Tacitus (caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood is thicker than water.
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant read more
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies
eorum non videbantur.]
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp
sting behind it.
[Lat., Aspere read more
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp
sting behind it.
[Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,
Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
[Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus read more
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
[Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus
exercuit.]
