Quote

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

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
Vita
Dishonorable
Honorable
Death
Better
Life

More quotes by Tacitus

Image
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Tacitus
Image
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
Image
In all things there is a law of cycles.
Tacitus
Image
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Tacitus
Image
They make solitude, which they call peace.
Tacitus
Image
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Tacitus
Image
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus
Image
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
Tacitus
Image
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
Tacitus
Image
They terrify lest they should fear.
Tacitus
Image
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
Tacitus
Image
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Tacitus
Image
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
Image
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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
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
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
A bad peace is even worse than war.
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
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Tacitus