Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUS -
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUS -
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUS -
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
TACITUS -
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUS -
One who is allowed to sin, sins less
TACITUS -
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
TACITUS -
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
TACITUS -
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
TACITUS -
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUS -
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TACITUS -
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUS -
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
TACITUS -
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUS -
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUS