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October 21, 2012 by kevinstilley

Cornelius Tacitus – select quotes

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
~ in Histories

The desire for fame is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
~ in Histories.

The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
~ in The Annals of Imperial Rome, Ch. 3

This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Filed Under: Blog, History, Quotes Tagged With: historiography, History, Rome, Tacitus

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