Tacitus Quotes

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Tacitus

Service, Chance, Often

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus

Rome, Shameless, Atrocious

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

Custom, Expediency, Adapts

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus

Nature, Hate, Human

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus

Love, Men, Learned

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus

Good, Old, Present

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus

Secret, Charm, Forbidden

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

Power, Hate, Next

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus

Agreement, Unite, Vanquished

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

Happy, Adversity, Against

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus

Woman, Nothing, Lost

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Historian

Born: 55

Died: 120

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