Tacitus Quotes
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Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Ne Tiberium quidem caritate aut rei publicae cura successorem adscitum, sed quoniam adrogantiam saevitiamque eius introspexerit, comparatione deterrima sibi gloriam quaesivisse.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
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Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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Viginti clarissimarum familiarum imagines antelatae sunt, Manlii, Quinctii aliaque eiusdem nobilitatis nomina. sed praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantur.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.
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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
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Deos fortioribus adesse.
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, 'with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising'.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
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All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.