263 Quotes by Tacitus

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

They make solitude, which they call peace.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.