Quote

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Tacitus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tacitus
Annalist
Biographer
Historian
Jurist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Gallia Bracata
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
P. Cornelius Tacitus
C. Cornelius Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus
Charm
Secret
Things
Forbidden

More quotes by Tacitus

Image
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.
Tacitus
Image
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus
Image
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.]
Tacitus
Image
In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
Tacitus
Image
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.
Tacitus
Image
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Tacitus
Image
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Tacitus
Image
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
Tacitus
Image
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus
Image
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
Tacitus
Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
Tacitus
Image
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Tacitus
Image
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
Tacitus
Image
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Tacitus
Image
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
Tacitus
Image
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Tacitus
Image
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
Tacitus
Image
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.
Tacitus
Image
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
Tacitus
Image
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Tacitus