Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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