Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
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Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
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nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.