It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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.
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