Thursday, June 4, 2026

Tacitus

 

Tacitus (c. 56-117+)

“To oblige is often as harmful as to offend.”

  • From The Annals of Imperial Rome (XV.21), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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