Tacitus
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.Collection: Tongue
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.Collection: Freedom
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.Collection: Marvellous
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.Collection: Race
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.Collection: History
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.Collection: Men
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.Collection: Inspirational
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.Collection: Law
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.Collection: Reputation
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.Collection: Fashion
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.Collection: Blood
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.Collection: Military
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.Collection: Fallen
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.Collection: Violence
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.Collection: Leader
They make a desert and call it peace.Collection: Peace
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.Collection: Pain
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.Collection: Bears
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.Collection: History
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.Collection: Men
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.Collection: Ends
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.Collection: Growth
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.Collection: Integrity
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.Collection: Disease
Custom adapts itself to expediency.Collection: Habit
The worst hatred is that of relatives.Collection: Hatred
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.Collection: Men
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.Collection: Evil
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.Collection: Adversity
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.Collection: Flattery
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.Collection: Modesty
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.Collection: Escaping
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.Collection: Flames
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.Collection: Art
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.Collection: Hurt
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.Collection: Hatred
The gods are on the side of the stronger.Collection: Stronger
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.Collection: Safe
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.Collection: Doubt
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.Collection: Proof
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.Collection: Giving
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.Collection: Animal
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.Collection: Flames
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.Collection: Liberty