Tacitus Quotes
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
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On the whole,one would say that their strength is in their infantry, which fights along with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of the latter is the swiftness of certain foot soldiers, who are picked from the entire youth of their country, and stationed in front of the line.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.