What did Tacitus mean by: The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace. - Tacitus Historian · Italy Copy
+ No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Fashion, Laughing, Vices, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Hate, Mind, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Hate, Hatred, Human, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Enemy, Flattery, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Chastity, Lost, Modesty, 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
+ An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Death, Honorable, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Politics, Power, Struggle, 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
