Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
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“When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]”
Chastity Quotes
Source: Annales (IV, 3)
“The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]”
Circumstance Quotes
Source: Historioe (bk. II, 70)
“Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]”
Cowards Quotes
Source: Annales (IV, 62)
“A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere, Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]”
Jesting Quotes
Source: Annales (XV, 68)
“He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]”
Obscurity Quotes
Source: Annales (III, 76)
“He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: Annales (bk. VI, ch. XLVI)
“The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]”
Revolution Quotes
Source: Annales (IV, 34)
“Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]”
Idleness Quotes
Source: Annales (XVI, 18)
“Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.”
Rumor Quotes
Source: Agricola (IX)
“Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]”
Posterity Quotes
Source: Annales (IV, 35)
“Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]”
Absence Quotes
Source: Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia
“Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]”
Benefits Quotes
Source: Annales (IV, 18)
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