Tacitus Quotes

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

All the devils respect virtue.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.