Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
Cornelius Tacitus
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Rumor is not always wrong. – from Life of Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
Cornelius Tacitus
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Cornelius Tacitus
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
Cornelius Tacitus
He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man’s ruin, unless tempered with discretion.
Cornelius Tacitus