Tacitus Quotes
- Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
- When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
- The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
- In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
- The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go…
- Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
- The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
- The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
- If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
- So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
- An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
- Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases.
- The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect…
- The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
- Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
- All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
- Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
- Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
- The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
- It is human to hate those whom we have injured.