Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSCrime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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