Cornelius Tacitus Quotes

Cornelius Tacitus Quotes

Cornelius Tacitus Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Cornelius Tacitus:

"That cannot be safe which is not honourable."

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

"I am my nearest neighbour."

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

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

"It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks."

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

"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."

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

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