Tacitus Quotes - Page 2

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• In valor there is hope.

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  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

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• Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

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  Traitor, Hated

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• Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

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  Purpose, Crime

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• None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

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  Sorrow, Shows, Greater

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• Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

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  Religious, Religion, Superstitions

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• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

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  Men, Desire, Oppression

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

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  Peace, War, Empires

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• [The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

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  Attitude, Hatred, Jew

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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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  Christian, Sports, Dog

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• A bad peace is even worse than war.

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  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

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  Government, Law, Numbers

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• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

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  Courage, Determination, Work

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book XV, 50,

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• An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
  [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

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  Death, Honorable Death, Honorable

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• In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

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  Law, Lawyer, Corruption

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• 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.

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  Liberty, Used, No Hope

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• In all things there is a law of cycles.

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  Law, All Things, Cycles

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• Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

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  Reform, Rich, Poor

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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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  Abuse, Criticism, Irritated

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• It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

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  Thinking, May, Likes

  "Histories". Book by Tacitus, Book I, 1,

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• By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

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  Men, Talent, Authority

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• Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

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  Barbarians, Firsts, England

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

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• Rumor is not always wrong

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  Rumor, Always Wrong

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• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

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  Men, Envy, Be Good

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• People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

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  People, Flattery, Depends

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

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  Fear, Perfect, Doe

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