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«There will be vice as long as there are men»
«This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved»
«A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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acquiescence, initiative, passive, shocking, unscrupulous
«To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.»
«When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.»
«Posterity gives every man his true value.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
«All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.»
«It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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uncorrupted
«The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
«They make a wilderness and call it peace.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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