Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUS -
Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
TACITUS -
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUS -
In all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUS -
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUS -
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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 -
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TACITUS -
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUS -
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUS -
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUS -
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
TACITUS -
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUS -
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
TACITUS -
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUS