“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Think of it. Fifteen whole years-no small part of a mans life.-taken from us-all the most energetic have fallen to the cruelty… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
