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

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
- Tacitus Quote

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.
- Tacitus Quote

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
- Tacitus Quote

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
- Tacitus Quote

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
- Tacitus Quote

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.
- Tacitus Quote

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

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

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
- Tacitus Quote

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
- Tacitus Quote

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
- Tacitus Quote

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
- Tacitus Quote

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
- Tacitus Quote

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

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- Tacitus Quote

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
- Tacitus Quote

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
- Tacitus Quote

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
- Tacitus Quote

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

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
- Tacitus Quote

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
- Tacitus Quote

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

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
- Tacitus Quote

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