The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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