Tacitus Quotes
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
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What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
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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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All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.
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Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.