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“A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You'ld think he's going to a hou...”
“A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfars heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying in the path of danger. She wondered what had befallen a different Norseman of her acquaintance. Had...”
“Far, far out on the open sea a platform of stone held firm against the tossing waves. At first sight, it appeared as nothing out of the ordinary, other than that it lay in the middle of nowhere.Tha...”
“She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...”
“In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.”
“Even freed men will do what they must in Rome.”
“Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).”
“They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.”
“Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.”
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"C...”
“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.”
“I remember Cannae," she said, raising her head, "when we thought all was lost. Carthage had defeated us, and there were those who gave up hope. Yet we survived, by our fortitude, and by believing t...”
“no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.”
“Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?The madder? Yes, I do.Enough of it for a century?Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.He twitched a smile then; I was coming to k...”
“But sometimes...sometimes I wake with a mad thought in my head: What if that boy's life mattered as much as anyone else's, even Caesar's? What if I were offered a choice: to doom that boy to the mi...”
“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.”
“Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget tha...”
“Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love was indeed a madness.”
“It was no wonder they thought us to be immortalour nightly celebrations put Olympus to shame.”
