Tacitus Quotes
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Rumor is not always wrong.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The changeful change of circumstances.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The Jews have an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.