263 Quotes by Tacitus

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Conspicuous by his absence.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.