Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat.,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise… — 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
