Zitat des Tages von Tacitus:
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
