Famous Quotes
62 Quotations with Tacitus.
- 1. Tacitus: It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.
- 2. Cornelius Tacitus: It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say ...
- 3. Cornelius Tacitus: He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man' ...
- 4. Cornelius Tacitus: In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and q ...
- 5. Cornelius Tacitus: It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the goo ...
- 6. Cornelius Tacitus: Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
- 7. Cornelius Tacitus: No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
- 8. Cornelius Tacitus: That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
- 9. Cornelius Tacitus: There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
- 10. Cornelius Tacitus: I am my nearest neighbour.
- 11. Tacitus: The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- 12. Tacitus: In valor there is hope
- 13. Tacitus: Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
- 14. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals ...
- 15. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irrita ...
- 16. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
- 17. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with g ...
- 18. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
- 19. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
- 20. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Custom adapts itself to expediency.