263 Quotes by Tacitus

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Rumor is not always wrong

The gods are on the side of the stronger.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.