Quotes by : Tacitus

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

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others....

Where they make a desert they call it peace.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must....

The more corrupt the state the more laws.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot....

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness,....

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