Tacitus

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

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

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

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

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

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

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

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.