The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSThis I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
More Tacitus Quotes
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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