He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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.
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
![Tacitus Quote - In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/in-all-things-there-is-a-kind-of-law-of-cycles-lat-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/the-brave-and-bold-persist-even-against-fortune-th-1-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/following-emporer-neros-command-let-the-christians-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/posterity-gives-to-every-man-his-true-honor-lat-su-683x1024.jpg)
