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Tacitus Quotes
(full name: Cornelius Tacitus)
Ancient Roman senator and historian
(AD c. 56 - c. 117)



"Haud semper erat fama."
(Rumour is not always wrong.)
-- Tacitus, in: Agricola

"Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant."
(They make it a wilderness and call it peace.)
-- Tacitus, speaking of the destruction of war, in: Agricola

"Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris."
(It is part of human nature to hate the person you have hurt.)
-- Tacitus, in: Agricola

"Elegantiae arbiter"
(The arbiter of taste)
-- Tacitus, speaking of Petronius, in: Annals

"Experientia docuit"
(Experience has taught.)
-- Tacitus, in: The Histories










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