Ammianus Marcellinus famous quotes

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Truth #Simple #Language
Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Art #Truth #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 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
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Strong #Eye #Pride
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Christian #Beast #Dealings
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Wicked #Desire #Done
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Taken #Fate #Men
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#May #Evening #Wheels
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 Marcellinus

#Success #Finals #Advantage
Truth is often attended with danger.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Truth #Truth Is #Danger

One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Ammianus Marcellinus famous quotes

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