If the writings of Tacitus indicate anything true of his qualities, he… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

If the writings of Tacitus indicate anything true of his qualities, he was a great personage, upright and bold, not of a superstitious but of a philosophical and generous virtue. One may think him bold in his relations; as where he tells us, that a soldier carrying a burden of wood, his hands were so frozen and so stuck to the load that they there remained closed and dead, being severed from his arms. I always in such things bow to the authority of so great witnesses.

Lugar: CHAPTER VIII · ¶4471
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