Share this page: Haud semper erat fama. (Rumour is not always wrong.) -- Tacitus, in: Agricola Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. (They make it a wilderness and call it peace.) -- Tacitus, speaking of the destruction of war, in: Agricola Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. (It is part of human nature to hate the person you have hurt.) -- Tacitus, in: Agricola Elegantiae arbiter (The arbiter of taste) -- Tacitus, speaking of Petronius, in: Annals Experientia docuit (Experience has taught.) -- Tacitus, in: The Histories Share this page:

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