40 Quotations by Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- 21. Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
- 22. Posterity gives every man his true value.
- 23. Posterity will pay everyone their due.
- 24. Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- 25. Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
- 26. So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
- 27. The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear ...
- 28. The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- 29. The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
- 30. The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
- 31. The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
- 32. The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca ...
- 33. They make a wilderness and call it peace.
- 34. Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
- 35. Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
- 36. To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderne ...
- 37. To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
- 38. Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
- 39. We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealt ...
- 40. When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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