It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUS -
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUS -
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUS -
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUS -
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
TACITUS -
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUS -
A bad peace is even worse than war.
TACITUS -
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUS -
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUS -
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
TACITUS -
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
TACITUS -
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUS -
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TACITUS -
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUS -
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUS -
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUS -
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUS -
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUS -
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
TACITUS -
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUS -
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.
TACITUS -
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS -
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TACITUS -
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
TACITUS -
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
TACITUS -
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUS