To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace.
By Tacitus
They make a wilderness and call it peace. (Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.)
By Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
By Tacitus
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
By Tacitus
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
By Tacitus
So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
By Tacitus
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
By Tacitus
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
By Tacitus
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
By Tacitus
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
By Tacitus
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
By Tacitus
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
By Tacitus
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
By Tacitus
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
By Tacitus
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
By Tacitus
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty
By Tacitus
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it
By Tacitus
Those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee
By Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
By Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise
By Tacitus
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
By Tacitus
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure
By Tacitus
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor
By Tacitus
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor
By Tacitus
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop
By Tacitus
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable
By Tacitus
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from
By Tacitus
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families
By Tacitus
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.
By Tacitus
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured
By Tacitus
