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.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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