Tacitus Quotes

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Things forbidden have a secret charm. - Tacitus

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

They make a wilderness and call it peace. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

They made a wasteland and called it peace. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

They (the Romans) make a desert, and they call it peace. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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