Tacitus Quotes

This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]