Frases célebres de Tácito
“La rara felicidad de los tiempos en los que pensar lo que quieras y decir lo que piensas está permitido.”
Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet
Variante: «Por la felicidad de los tiempos en los que se permite pensar lo que se quiere y decir lo que se piensa».
Tácito Frases y Citas
Tácito: Frases en inglés
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Tacitus libro Annals
Book III, 27
Variant translations:
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Annals (117)
“To every man posterity gives his due honour”
Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit
Tacitus libro Annals
Book IV, 35; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
Tacitus libro Agricola
Fuente: Agricola (98), Chapter 42; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The histories of Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, and Nero, while they were in power, were falsified through terror, and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred. Hence my purpose is to relate a few facts about Augustus - more particularly his last acts, then the reign of Tiberius, and all which follows, without either bitterness or partiality, from any motives to which I am far removed.”
Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
Tacitus libro Annals
Book I, 1; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
Tacitus libro Germania
Fuente: Germania (98), Chapter 35
“No doubt, there was peace after all this, but it was a peace stained with blood.”
Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.
Tacitus libro Annals
Book I, 10; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“There will be vices as long as there are men.”
Vitia erunt donec homines
Tacitus libro Histories
Book IV, 74; Church-Brodribb translation
Histories (100-110)
Tacitus libro Histories
Book IV, 6
Histories (100-110)
“He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.”
Tacitus libro Histories
Book II, 80
Histories (100-110)
Tacitus libro Germania
Fuente: Germania (98), Chapter 6
“Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.”
Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
Tacitus libro Annals
Book XIV, 44
Annals (117)
“He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.”
Tacitus libro Annals
Book VI, 39
Annals (117)
