Tacitus Quotes About Age
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
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