Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSAdversity deprives us of our judgment.
TACITUSI am my nearest neighbour.
TACITUSThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
TACITUSThe desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSSo obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
TACITUSThe sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSBe assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
TACITUSEven the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
TACITUSFollowing 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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