So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — 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
