Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Cornelius Tacitus

Cornelius Tacitus Roman historian & politician (55 AD - 117 AD)


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- It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

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- Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Cornelius Tacitus - Histories
- It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

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- There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

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- I am my nearest neighbour.

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- That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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- No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

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- In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.