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Quotation from The Histories by Tacitus
“You must put up with luxury and greed in your masters, just as you put up with bad crops or excessive rain, or any other natural disaster. Vice will last as long as mankind.”
The Histories, Book IV, ch. 74, trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912)
Cerialis tells the Treviri and Lingones at Trier that bad rulers are to be endured, since revolt would bring worse.
Citation: "You must put up with luxury and greed in your masters, just as you put up with bad crops or excessive rain, or any other natural disaster. Vice will last as long as mankind." — Tacitus, The Histories, Book IV, ch. 74, trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912). (id tacitus-the-histories-q7)
Portrait: Tacitus, Cornelius (50 - 116), Unknown author, Public domain.
