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Germania QUOTES

Germania QUOTES

1 " Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished. "

― Tacitus , Germania

2 " Escolhem os Reis pela nobreza, os chefes pelo valor. O poder não é ilimitado nem arbitrário para os reis, e os chefes impõem-se pela admiração, mais por exemplo do que por autoridade, se são ousados e insignes, se actuam à frente na linha de batalha. "

― Tacitus , Germania

3 " In wonderful savageness live the nation of the Fennians, and in beastly poverty, destitute of arms, of horses, and of homes; their food, the common herbs; their apparel, skins; their bed, the earth; their only hope in their arrows, which for want of iron they point with bones. Their common support they have from the chase, women as well as men; for with these the former wander up and down, and crave a portion of the prey. Nor other shelter have they even for their babes, against the violence of tempests and ravening beasts, than to cover them with the branches of trees twisted together; this a reception for the old men, and hither resort the young. Such a condition they judge more happy than the painful occupation of cultivating the ground, than the labour of rearing houses, than the agitations of hope and fear attending the defence of their own property or the seizing that of others. Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished. "

― Tacitus , Germania