Things forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSCrime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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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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