263 Quotes by Tacitus

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.