263 Quotes by Tacitus

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

He bore this calamity, not with the ostentatious firmness which many have affected, nor yet with the tears and lamentations of feminine sorrow; and war was one of the remedies of his grief.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.