The gods are on the side of the stronger.
TACITUSPosterity will pay everyone their due.
More Tacitus Quotes
-
-
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
TACITUS -
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUS -
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
TACITUS -
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
TACITUS -
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUS -
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 -
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUS -
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
TACITUS -
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUS -
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
TACITUS -
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUS -
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUS -
Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUS -
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
TACITUS -
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUS