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Tacitus (Historian)

In De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, Tacitus describes and praises the life of his father-in-law , an eminent Roman general. It covers briefly the people and geography of Britain, where Agricola was stationed.
— Tacitus life
Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
— Tacitus man
Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
— Tacitus
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
— Tacitus nature
Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis.
— Tacitus
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
— Tacitus time
They even say that an altar dedicated to , with the addition of the name of his father, , was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs withinscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and .
— Tacitus men
On the whole,one would say that their strength is in their infantry, which fights along with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of the latter is the swiftness of certain foot soldiers, who are picked from the entire youth of their country, and stationed in front of the line.
— Tacitus strength
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
— Tacitus grace
is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
— Tacitus man
Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
— Tacitus
…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges.
— Tacitus
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
— Tacitus man
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
— Tacitus strength
Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.
— Tacitus death
All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
— Tacitus cat
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
— Tacitus think
He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
— Tacitus hate
Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
— Tacitus art
Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
— Tacitus passion
Deos fortioribus adesse.
— Tacitus
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
— Tacitus
Conspicuous by his absence.
— Tacitus
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 lies
He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
— Tacitus business
He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising".
— Tacitus sin
What is today supported bywill hereafter become a precedent.
— Tacitus will
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
— Tacitus action
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
— Tacitus desire
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
— Tacitus nature
We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
— Tacitus good
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
— Tacitus men

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