The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
TACITUS -
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUS -
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
TACITUS -
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUS -
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUS -
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TACITUS -
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUS -
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
TACITUS -
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
TACITUS -
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
TACITUS -
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUS -
Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
TACITUS -
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
TACITUS -
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
TACITUS -
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.
TACITUS