To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUS -
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TACITUS -
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUS -
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
TACITUS -
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TACITUS -
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUS -
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
TACITUS -
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUS -
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUS -
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUS -
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.
TACITUS -
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TACITUS -
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUS -
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
TACITUS -
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUS