Ariel Jackson

“Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.”
― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania

“To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything.
But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories.
And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.”
― Cornelius Tacitus

“Good turns are pleasing only in so far as they seem repayable; much beyond that we repay with hatred, not gratitude.”
― Tacitus