War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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