Quote

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

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
Marvellous
Passes
Unknown
Always

More quotes by Tacitus

Image
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
Image
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
Tacitus
Image
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
Image
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.
Tacitus
Image
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.
Tacitus
Image
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
Tacitus
Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
Tacitus
Image
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Tacitus
Image
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
Image
Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
Tacitus
Image
I am my nearest neighbour.
Tacitus
Image
Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
Tacitus
Image
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
Tacitus
Image
Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
Tacitus
Image
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Tacitus
Image
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Tacitus
Image
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
Tacitus
Image
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Tacitus