Author of quotes: Publius Cornelius Tacitus

At the head of a funerary procession carried the image of the twelve most illustrious families (...). But brighter than all glittered with Cassius and Brutus - it is because their images were not seen.

Fear weakens even sophisticated eloquence.

Slowly, but surely.

I believe the primary responsibility of the annals preserve the memory of the manifestations of virtue and oppose dishonest words and intimidation to shame in the offspring.

More laws were published in the days of most of the troubles in the Republic.

Large events always remain mysterious, for some, whatever they happened to hear, taking that in mind, but others consider the truth of fiction, and the offspring even more exaggerates both.

Rulers are mortal, the state eternal.

Extolling the old days, we are not curious about the recent past.

Loudly mourn the death of Germanicus, those who are most delighted by it.

Over time, [the bad] the senses lose their acuteness, and to overcome fresh hatred often not under force, and people, innocent.

Without anger and bias.

The acts of Tiberius and Gaius [Caligula], and Claudius and Nero, while they were omnipotent, for fear of them stated was false, and when they did not - under the influence they left on its own with fresh hatred.

The enemy cannot betray. A traitor is always the one who yesterday was a friend. Do not hurry to share with friends the secret. Always leave your house full of guests, locked storage room to which nobody, except you, no access. Always leave yourself a door that no one but you knows, and through which you can run from your home.