Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family.
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Rumor is not always wrong.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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In valor there is hope.
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That form of eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The changeful change of circumstances.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.