Tacit Quotes

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. - Tacitus

Whatever is unknown is magnified. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

What is achievable now, it's sort of a tacit agreement: OK let's try. And this feeling is really growing. - Wolfgang Petritsch

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. - Douglas Hyde

We had a man as dashing as Sheridan, as unique and picturesque as the slow-moving, taciturn Grant, as charming as Jackson, as witty as old Billy Sherman, as brave as Paul Jones. - William Allen White