"Quod praecipuum munus Annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis factisque, ex posteritate et infamia metus sit"
Tacitus—Annalium, Liber III. Caput lxv.
"Traditional account of departed worth, if not combined with some permanent memorial, are commonly short-lived and uncertain."
Bacon.
"For nothing else is History
but pickle of antiquity,
where things are kept in memory,
from stincking."
The Woodstock Scuffle.
Inspicere, tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium
Jubeo; atque ex eliis sumere exemplum sibi.
Terentius—Adelphi, Act. III. Sc. 3.
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