More From Tacitus
- "Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
- "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
- "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
More In Nature
- "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."― David Herbert Lawrence
- "There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."― David Hume
- "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."― Ralph Waldo Emerson