Ammianus Marcellinus quotes
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“The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.”
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“Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.”
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“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 great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes”
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“No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other”
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“Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.”
-- Ammianus MarcellinusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.
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“No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.”
-- Ammianus MarcellinusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Historia, XXIII. 5, 1922.
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“Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.”
-- Ammianus MarcellinusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Historia, XXVI. 8, 1922.
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“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 the right to decide as to the final result.”
-- Ammianus MarcellinusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 759-62, Annales, XXV. 3, 1922.
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“Truth is often attended with danger.”
-- Ammianus Marcellinus
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
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“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”
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