The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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
-
-
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUS -
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
TACITUS -
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
TACITUS -
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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 -
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUS -
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUS -
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
TACITUS -
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUS -
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUS -
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUS -
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
TACITUS -
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUS -
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUS -
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUS