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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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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Tacitus
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.
Tacitus
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
Tacitus
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Tacitus
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
Tacitus
They make solitude, which they call peace.
Tacitus
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
Tacitus
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
Tacitus
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Tacitus
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Tacitus
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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