Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TACITUSFollowing 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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In valor there is hope.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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