Quote by Cornelius Tacitus (56-120)

• He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

• Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

• That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

• It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

• No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.