Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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