{"quotes":[{"text":"The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.","author":"H.J. Haskell","tags":["ancient-rome","economics","new-deal"],"id":76,"author_id":"H.J.+Haskell"},{"text":"Secundus might lie rotting in his grave, but his relatives and followers yet lived. They believed the lies that held Gwenwhyfar responsible for the death of their relative. For the sake of his own family’s safety, Marcus had not sought to correct that error.","author":"Jennifer McKeithen","tags":["ancient-civilizations","ancient-rome","atlantis","historical-fantasy","revenge","teen-fantasy","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":364,"author_id":"Jennifer+McKeithen"},{"text":"Even freed men will do what they must in Rome.","author":"Katlyn Charlesworth","tags":["ancient-rome","freedom","murder","power"],"id":58205,"author_id":"Katlyn+Charlesworth"},{"text":"Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["ancient-rome","death","history","knives","murder","rome","suicide"],"id":63670,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"But sometimes...Sometimes I wake with a mad thought in my head: What if that boy's life mattered as much as anyone else's, even Caesar's? What if I were offered a choice: to doom that boy to the misery of his fate, or to spare him, and by doing so, to wreck all Caesar's ambitions? I'm haunted by that thought - which is ridiculous! It's self-evident that Caesar matters infinitely more than that Gaulish boy; one stands poised to rule the world, and the other is a miserable slae, if he even still lives. Some men are great, others are insignificant, and it behooves those of us who are in-between to ally ourselves with the greatest and to despise the smallest. To even begin to imagine that the Gaulish boy maters as much as Caesar is to presume that some mystical quality resides in every man and makes his life equal to that of any other, and surely the lesson life teaches us is quite the opposite! In stength and intellect, men are anything but equal, and the gods lavish their attention on some more than on others.","author":"Steven Saylor","tags":["ancient-rome","caesar","equality"],"id":69197,"author_id":"Steven+Saylor"},{"text":"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?'Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015.","author":"Cicero","tags":["ancient-rome","dictator","history","robert-harris"],"id":102727,"author_id":"Cicero"},{"text":"Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).","author":"Mary Beard","tags":["ancient-rome","living"],"id":120712,"author_id":"Mary+Beard"},{"text":"Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget that.”The boy's voice was grave. “I'll remember.","author":"Jennifer McKeithen","tags":["ancient-rome","atlantis","carthage","hannibal","punic-wars","revenge","vengeance"],"id":126616,"author_id":"Jennifer+McKeithen"},{"text":"The wheel of Rome spins constantly. Gods rise and fall, mortals live and die, and round and round we go. We all play a part in that wheel... And I make sure the wheel never stops spinning. You see, if the wheel stops, balance is lost.","author":"Katlyn Charlesworth","tags":["ancient-rome","emperor","gods","life","wheel"],"id":141614,"author_id":"Katlyn+Charlesworth"},{"text":"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 her poor bodyguard, Finn, perished in one of those raids?","author":"Jennifer McKeithen","tags":["ancient-rome","atlantis","celtic","fantasy","historical-fiction","ocean","romance","sea","young-adult"],"id":142600,"author_id":"Jennifer+McKeithen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}