Tacitus Quotes
-
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
-
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.
-
Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
-
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
-
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
-
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
-
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
-
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
-
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
-
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
-
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
-
The changeful change of circumstances.
-
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
-
Experience teaches.
-
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.
-
Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
-
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
-
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
-
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
-
It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
-
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
-
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.
-
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
-
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.