Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The 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.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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