"Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance."

"Dwelling on one side of the Chauci and Chatti, the Cherusci long cherished, unassailed, an excessive and enervating love of peace. This was more pleasant than safe, for to be peaceful is self-deception among lawless and powerful neighbours. Where the strong hand decides, moderation and justice are terms applied only to the more powerful; and so the Cherusci, ever reputed good and just, are now called cowards and fools, while in the case of the victorious Chatti success has been identified with prudence. The downfall of the Cherusci brought with it also that of the Fosi, a neighbouring tribe, which shared equally in their disasters, though they had been inferior to them in prosperous days."

"Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others."

"No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted."

"...ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges."

"Quanquam severa illic matrimonia"

"Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims."

"Scutum reliquisse praecipuum flagitium, nec aut sacris adesse aut concilium inire ignominioso fas; multique superstites bellorum infamiam laqueo finierunt."

"On the whole, one would say that their strength is in their infantry, which fights along with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of the latter is the swiftness of certain foot soldiers, who are picked from the entire youth of their country, and stationed in front of the line."

"They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia."

"The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us, is seldom entered by a sail from our world."

"Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis."

"Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris."

"Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate."

"Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant."

"non enim ignavia magna imperia contineri"

"Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus."

"What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent."

"He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising"."

"He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher."

"Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abnuerit."