Tacitus quotes

In valor there is hope.
-- Tacitus

#Courage #Valor #There Is Hope

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
-- Tacitus

#Heart #Passion #Lust

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

#Gratitude #Revenge #Men

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
-- Tacitus

#Men #Desire #Oppression

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
-- Tacitus

#Peace #Freedom #War

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
-- Tacitus

#Race #Dwelling #Tree

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
-- Tacitus

#Law #Lawyer #Corruption

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
-- Tacitus

#Hate #Anger #Politics

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader..
-- Tacitus

#Business #Leader #Quality

They make a desert and call it peace.
-- Tacitus

#Peace #Desert

A bad peace is even worse than war.
-- Tacitus

#Peace #War

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
-- Tacitus

#May #Resentment #Shows

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
-- Tacitus

#Secret #Charm #Forbidden

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
-- Tacitus

#Ambition #Land #Greed

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
-- Tacitus

#Evil #History #Deeds

In all things there is a law of cycles.
-- Tacitus

#Law

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
-- Tacitus

#Reputation #Dangerous

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.
-- Tacitus

#Dog #House #Tails

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
-- Tacitus

#Reign #Emperor #Ability

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
-- Tacitus

#Pain #Valor #Contempt

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
-- Tacitus

#Struggle #Adversity #Wealth

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
-- Tacitus

#Men #Envy #Be Good

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
-- Tacitus

#Confidence

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
-- Tacitus

#Hate #Men #Mind

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
-- Tacitus

#Leader #Quality #Calm

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
-- Tacitus

#Empires #Timidity

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
-- Tacitus

#May #Paranoia #Criticise

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

#Thinking #Opinion #Judged