Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUSWho the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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 glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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.
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