263 Quotes by Tacitus

The name Cornelius was a common one among the Romans, so that from it we can draw no inference.

Tacitus was son- in-law to Agricola; and while filial piety breathes through his work, he never departs from the integrity of his own character.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Good turns are pleasing only in so far as they seem repayable; much beyond that we repay with hatred, not gratitude.

To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less.

The Vindili, to whom belong the Burgundiones, Varini, Carini, and Guttones; the Ingaevones, including the Cimbri, Teutoni, and Chauci; the Istaevones, near the Rhine, part of whom are the midland Cimbri; the Hermiones, containing the Suevi, Hermunduri, Catti, and Cherusci; and the Peucini and Bastarnae, bordering upon the Dacians.

They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia .