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.
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.
![Tacitus Quote - All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/all-inconsiderate-enterprises-are-impetuous-at-fir-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/when-men-of-talents-are-punished-authority-is-stre-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/experience-teaches-lat-experientia-docet-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/none-grieve-so-ostentatiously-as-those-who-rejoice-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)
