Tacitus Quotes
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Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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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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Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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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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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Nihil deorum honoribus relictum, cum se templis et effigie numinum per flamines et sacerdotes coli vellet.
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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.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit