The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUS -
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUS -
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
TACITUS -
The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUS -
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TACITUS -
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
TACITUS -
Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUS -
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUS -
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUS -
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUS -
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TACITUS -
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
TACITUS -
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUS -
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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