“No one dances while he is sober. Unless he happens to be a lunatic. -Cicero” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence - in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share
