Quote

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

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
Avails
Haste
Falsehood
Uncertainty

More quotes by Tacitus

Image
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
Tacitus
Image
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Tacitus
Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
Image
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
Tacitus
Image
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
Image
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
Tacitus
Image
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
Tacitus
Image
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
Tacitus
Image
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
Tacitus
Image
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
Tacitus
Image
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
Image
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Tacitus
Image
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
Tacitus
Image
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
Tacitus
Image
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
Image
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
Tacitus
Image
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Tacitus
Image
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
Tacitus