A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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