Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSEverything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSBe 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.
TACITUSFlattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSChristianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSRumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUSSo obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
TACITUSHe (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
TACITUSThe 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.]
TACITUSVictor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
TACITUS[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TACITUSA cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUS