263 Quotes by Tacitus

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.