To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUS -
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUS -
Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUS -
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUS -
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUS -
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUS -
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUS -
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUS -
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUS -
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
TACITUS -
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUS -
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUS -
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS -
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
TACITUS -
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUS