The Histories Quotes

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
― Tacitus, The Histories

“There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.”
― Tacitus, The Histories

“When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign.”
― Tacitus, The Histories