Tacitus Quotes
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Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
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Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
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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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Divisa inter exercitum ducesque munia: militibus cupidinem pugnandi convenire, duces providendo, consultando, cunctatione saepius quam temeritate prodesse. ut pro virili portione armis ac manu victoriam iuverit, ratione et consilio, propriis ducis artibus, profuturum.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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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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Nihil deorum honoribus relictum, cum se templis et effigie numinum per flamines et sacerdotes coli vellet.