Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Tacitus
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Tacitus
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus
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Carter G. Woodson, Edward Gibbon, Alexis de Tocqueville, Herodotus, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Lord Acton, Will Durant, Stephen Ambrose
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Biography
Type: Historian
Nationality: Roman
Born: 55
Died: 120
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