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.
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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