Tacitus Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  Tacitus

  Time, Old Things, Age

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

  Tacitus

  Character, Age, Noble

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  Tacitus

  Art, Years, Medicine

  "Annals", Book VI, Chapter XLVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p.502-04, 1922.

• We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
  [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

  Tacitus

  Age, Ancient

• Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples.
  [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

  Tacitus

  Age, Example, Virtue

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