Tacitus Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“Many of you remember when Dutch Elm disease swept the East Coast. People in big cities saw the trees die but it didn’t register,…

— Rita Mae Brown

“the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character…

— Peter Drucker

Even trees do not die without a groan.

— Henry David Thoreau

“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted…

— John Adams

“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus,…

— Tacitus

“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors...Now,…

— Thomas Jerome Baker

“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no…

— Thomas Paine

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however,…

— Horace

“Think of it. Fifteen whole years-no small part of a mans life.-taken from us-all the most energetic have fallen to the cruelty of the…

— Tacitus

“A bad peace is worse than war.”

— Tacitus