Tacitus Quotes
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
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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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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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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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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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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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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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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse.
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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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Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.