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It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006)
Roman laws tended to be long and complex — one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006)
A man who keeps asking you to trust him is always hiding something.
Vindolanda (2017)
I would call it inhuman cruelty if that made sense, but it cannot because it was done by men and not monsters.
The Encircling Sea (2018)
Untrustworthy people tend to be selfish, which makes them simple to understand.
The Encircling Sea (2018)
I'm English, so obviously do not have a philosophy. I am a Christian, though, if you want to know about important beliefs.
Internally stable, the Republic was able to devote itself to waging war with a relentlessness unmatched by any rival.
Cleopatra may have had black, brown, blonde, or even red hair, and her eyes could have been brown, grey, green or blue....She may have been very light skinned or had a darker, more Mediterranean complexion.
When Crassus left for his province he was hounded by a tribune who formally called on the gods to curse the proconsul and the unjust war he planned. Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senators' minds than the good of the Republic.
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (2014)
Attila the Hun remains to this day a byword for savagery and destruction. His is one of the few names from antiquity that still prompt instant recognition, putting him alongside the likes of Alexander, Caesar, Cleopatra and Nero. Attila has become the barbarian of the ancient world.
The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower (2009)