Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Pleasure
Less
Difficult
Uncorrupted
Misfortunes
Bear
Remain
Bears
More quotes by Tacitus
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
Tacitus
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Tacitus
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
They terrify lest they should fear.
Tacitus
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Tacitus
Rumor is not always wrong
Tacitus
We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
Tacitus
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
Tacitus
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
Tacitus
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Tacitus
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
Tacitus
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
Tacitus
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
Tacitus
The gods are on the side of the stronger.
Tacitus
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Tacitus
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
Tacitus
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
Tacitus
