We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
More Tacitus Quotes
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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