15 Quotes by Ammianus Marcellinus

Truth is often attended with danger.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

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.

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

There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.

There is a story that while Sokrates was in prison, awaiting his death, he heard a man sing skillfully a song by the lyric poet Stesichoros, and begged him to teach it to him before it was too late, and when the musician asked why, Sokrates replied, ‘I want to die knowing one thing more.