Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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