Tacitus
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.Collection: Support
Rumor is not always wrongCollection: Rumor
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.Collection: Gratitude
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.Collection: Fear
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.Collection: Attitude
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.Collection: Struggle
In all things there is a law of cycles.Collection: Law
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.Collection: Abuse
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.Collection: Men
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.Collection: Sorrow
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.Collection: Family
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.Collection: May
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.Collection: Wicked
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.Collection: Memorial Day
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.Collection: Reform
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.Collection: Running
I am my nearest neighbour.Collection: Neighbour
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.Collection: Generosity
They terrify lest they should fear.Collection: Should
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.Collection: Barbarians
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.Collection: Law
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.Collection: Men
Posterity will pay everyone their due.Collection: Time
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.Collection: Character
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.Collection: Haste
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.Collection: Men
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.Collection: Vigor
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.Collection: War
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.Collection: Winning
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 .Collection: Father
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.Collection: Vigor
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.Collection: Ignorance
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.Collection: Exclusion
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.Collection: Men
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.Collection: Peace
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.Collection: Zealous
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.Collection: Success