Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Quote by Tacitus

Topics: Quotes about Tacitus

Share on:

Similar quotes

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the...

#Tacitus

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

#Tacitus

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

#Tacitus

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make...

#Tacitus

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are...

#Tacitus

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

#Tacitus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

#Tacitus

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

#Tacitus

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing...

#Tacitus