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.
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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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