Tacitus Quotes

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Tacitus

• War
• Peace
• Shameful

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Russia

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Anybody

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Dinner
  • Details
  • Luxury

• Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Fun
  • Fault
  • Bullying

• I want people to be happy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.

  

  Daniel Bell

• I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'

  

  Tanith Lee

• Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Power
  • History

• Hindu tan man, Hindu Jeevan, Rag rag Hindu mera parichay. English translation: Hindu body and soul, Hindu life, in every pore my identity is of a Hindu

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Life
  • Soul
  • English

• The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

  

  Arthur L. Herman
  • War

• The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Children
  • War
  • Evil

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Professional

• My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Work
  • School
  • Done

• Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • War
  • Peace
  • Shameful