It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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So 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.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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