Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
- Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
- The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
- Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of…
- No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other
- Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
- No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
- Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
- Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves…
- Truth is often attended with danger.