Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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
Succeed
Despatch
Crime
Counsels
Honest
Succeeds
Vigor
Delay
Sudden
Gain
Gains
More quotes by Tacitus
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
Tacitus
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
Tacitus
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
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Tacitus
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
Tacitus
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Tacitus
Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
Tacitus
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Tacitus
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Tacitus
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Tacitus
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Tacitus
