What did Tacitus mean by: The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace. - Tacitus Historian · Italy Copy
+ A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Ruins, Work Out, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Foundation, Politics, Wisdom, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Generosity, Moderation, Ruins, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Cities, Rome, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Commonwealth, Law, Libertarian, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Conquest, Party, War, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Age, Ancient, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Resentment, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. - Ludwig Bemelmans Illustrator · Austria
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things? - Jeff VanderMeer Author · USA
