Knows Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone…

— Ben Aaronovitch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she…

— Plutarch

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

— Hans Kung

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

— Julius Caesar

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in…

— Eleanor Clark

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

— Julius Caesar

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

— Anonymous

“The mayor informed General Petronio San Roman of the episode, down to the last literal phrase, in an alarming telegram. General San Roman must…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When…

— Plutarch

“If Rome were a woman, she’d be a whore.”

— Elizabeth Geoghegan

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

— Augustus