Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TacitusThis 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.
TacitusSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TacitusFollowing 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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