Tacitus Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

  Tacitus

  Men, Quiet, Virtue

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.141, London : Macmillan

• There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

  Tacitus

  Integrity, Favors, Virtue

• 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

• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

  Tacitus

  Integrity, Opposites, Honor

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