It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Quotes about tacitus (3 Quotes)
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.