Dresden files Quote by Jim Butcher

“Plotinus befriended a Roman senator who had freed his slaves, renounced his wealth, and who ate and slept at the houses of friends, for…

— Cioran

“You fought well on Mona, my Mules, but I have brought you here for a little more javelin practice.’ The words carried along the…

— Douglas Jackson

“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.”

— Emil Cioran

“Perhaps,” thought Robin, “the soldiers didn’t actually mock Jesus at all. It was just a game, which they let him join in. He might…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.”

— Kamal Salibi

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

— Anonymous

“I remember Cannae," she said, raising her head, "when we thought all was lost. Carthage had defeated us, and there were those who gave…

— Paul Waters

“Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture…

— Dan Brown

“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians.…

— Manda Scott

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“I’d seen enough of his stone likenesses scattered around Rome to guess his identity from his torchlit profile, but even if I hadn’t, I…

— Lesley Livingston

“…no greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility…”

— Richard Hakluyt