The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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