Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes

#1. Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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#2. No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

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#3. No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

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#4. It is not fit to spin out history with petty details.

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#5. The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

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#6. No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

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#7. Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

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#8. Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

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#9. Truth is often attended with danger.

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#10. There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.

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#11. 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.

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