Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder.” — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image