Tacitus Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

  Tacitus

  Ambition, Land, Greed

• Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
  [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

  Tacitus

  Enemy, Flattery, Kind

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, History

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

  Tacitus

  Integrity, Opposites, Honor

• The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

  Tacitus

  Race, Enemy, Flatterer

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