Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSBodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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