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Tacitus Inspirational Quotes (133)

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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.
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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.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
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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.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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