This 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.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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.
![Tacitus Quote - [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/that-form-of-eloquence-the-foster-child-of-licence-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/the-changeful-change-of-circumstances-lat-varia-so-683x1024.jpg)
