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.
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
![Tacitus Quote - Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/posterity-gives-to-every-man-his-true-honor-lat-su.jpg)
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![Tacitus Quote - Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-posterity-gives-to-every-man-his-true-ho.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-posterity-gives-to-every-man-his-true-ho.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-posterity-gives-to-every-man-his-true-ho.jpg)
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![Tacitus Quote - When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/when-men-of-talents-are-punished-authority-is-stre-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/following-emporer-neros-command-let-the-christians-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/bodies-are-slow-of-growth-but-are-rapid-in-their-d-683x1024.jpg)
