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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with C >> Quotes By Cornelius Tacitus |
| Quote #1: | "That cannot be safe which is not honourable." |
| Quote #2: | "There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive." |
| Quote #3: | "No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations." |
| Quote #4: | "He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion." |
| Quote #5: | "It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks." |
| Quote #6: | "I am my nearest neighbour." |
| Quote #7: | "In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue." |
| Quote #8: | "It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others." |
| Quote #9: | "Keen at the start, but careless at the end." |
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