In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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