All Tacitus Quotes
- No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. Call
- Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. Crowning
- Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line. Difficult
- So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious… All
- Custom adapts itself to expediency. Adapts
- The hatred of relatives is the most violent. Family
- Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. Bravest
- Posterity gives every man his true value. Every Man
- War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. Conquest
- The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. Fame
- More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense. Committed
- Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. Close
- None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. Death
- Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid… Benefits
- Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family Bulwarks
- Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted. Beautiful
- The unknown always passes for the marvellous. Always Passes
- By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. Been
- In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. Course
- Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. Always Err
- The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. Fame
- Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. Afterwards
- It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. Brightens
- Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. Acquired
- He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what… Age