Quotes by Cornelius Tacitus
| That cannot be safe which is not honourable. |
| There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. |
| No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. |
| He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. |
| It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. |
| 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. |
| It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. |
| Keen at the start, but careless at the end. |
