Quote by Cornelius Tacitus (56-120)

• Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

• That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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

• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

• It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

• He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.