The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like.

If you are so worried that Roman culture will change, then stop living off the backs of your slaves, and start doing work for yourselves. Or perhaps you prefer to keep watching wagon trains of a thousand Gauls roll in. Perhaps you would rather condone the slave traders with their pretty Greeks. In which case, you will soon have a Rome in which no one is Roman. You can force them to speak Latin, to wear tunics and sandals, but blood will out.

We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. – JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID.

And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then – if you allow it – everything else.

We’ve all done things we’d rather keep in the dark. It’s only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your.

A religious people is a people with purpose. So if the grain fails, or the aqueducts turn muddy, it can be Jupiter’s fault, not his.

If the gods cannot recognize your names,” she warned, “they will never hear your prayers.