Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSPosterity will pay everyone their due.
More Tacitus Quotes
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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