"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 house ..."
- Titus Lucretius Carus
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The..."
- Winston S. Churchill
"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."
- Katlyn Charlesworth
"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."
- Augustus
"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?"Cice..."
- Cicero
"A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s 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 h..."
- Jennifer McKeithen
"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.That w..."
"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."