Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
TACITUS -
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUS -
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUS -
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
TACITUS -
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUS -
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUS -
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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 -
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS -
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUS -
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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 -
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUS -
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUS -
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
TACITUS






