Tacitus
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.Collection: Hate
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.Collection: Hate
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.Collection: Wise
Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.Collection: Adventure
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.Collection: Integrity
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.Collection: Belief
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.Collection: Hate
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.Collection: Lost
Conspicuous by his absence.Collection: Absence
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.Collection: Passion
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.Collection: Rome
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous familyCollection: Power
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.Collection: Dwelling
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.Collection: Grieving
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.Collection: Men
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.Collection: Struggle
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.Collection: Today
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.Collection: War
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxesCollection: Army
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.Collection: Hate
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.Collection: Political
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.Collection: Nature
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.Collection: Winning
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.Collection: Science
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.Collection: Passion
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.Collection: Passion
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.Collection: Kindness
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.Collection: Men
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.Collection: Men
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].Collection: Mourning
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.Collection: Believe
In valor there is hope.Collection: Veterans Day
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.Collection: Purpose
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.Collection: Christian
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.Collection: Thinking
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.Collection: Law
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.Collection: Liberty
Things forbidden have a secret charm.Collection: Secret
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.Collection: Rome
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.Collection: Struggle
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.Collection: Thinking
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.Collection: Traitor
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.Collection: Inspirational
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.Collection: Courage
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.Collection: People
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.Collection: Wise