Advertisements
Tacitus Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Life Quotes
Funny Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
In the opinion of all men he would have been regarded as capable of governing, if he had never governed (Tacitus Quotes)
Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it (Tacitus Quotes)
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue (Tacitus Quotes)
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor (Tacitus Quotes)
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth (Tacitus Quotes)
The mob have neither judgment nor principle, ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning (Tacitus Quotes)
Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples (Tacitus Quotes)
As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory (Tacitus Quotes)
There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin (Tacitus Quotes)
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin (Tacitus Quotes)
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all (Tacitus Quotes)
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it (Tacitus Quotes)
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end (Tacitus Quotes)
He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again (Tacitus Quotes)
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable (Tacitus Quotes)
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards (Tacitus Quotes)
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched (Tacitus Quotes)
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted (Tacitus Quotes)
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others (Tacitus Quotes)
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks (Tacitus Quotes)
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall (Tacitus Quotes)
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party (Tacitus Quotes)
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense (Tacitus Quotes)
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast (Tacitus Quotes)
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 with hatred instead of gratitude (Tacitus Quotes)
Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted (Tacitus Quotes)
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone (Tacitus Quotes)
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes (Tacitus Quotes)
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity (Tacitus Quotes)
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think (Tacitus Quotes)