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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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• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

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  Struggle, Power, Politics

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, II. 74,

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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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• 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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• Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

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  Military, Leader, Quality

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

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  Fear, Truth, Sincerity

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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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• 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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• The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

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• Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

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  Lines, Killing, Difficult

  "Histories". Book by Tacitus. Book I, 39,

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• Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

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  Compassion, Tears, Politics

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• Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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  Rome, Empires, Great Empires

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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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• The most seditious is the most cowardly.

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  Revolution, Cowardly

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 34, AD 117.

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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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• A bad peace is even worse than war.

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  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

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  Secret, Charm, Forbidden

  "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

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• In valor there is hope.

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  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

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

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  Attitude, Hatred, Jew

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

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  Reform, Rich, Poor

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• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

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  Inspirational, Blessing, Reality

  Cornelius Tacitus (1964). “The histories”

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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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