A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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