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“To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to control their fate for the wrong reasons.”

Lindsey Davis book The Accusers

The Accusers

“This was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug.”

Lindsey Davis book See Delphi and Die

See Delphi and Die

“Justice never paid a poor man's bills.”

Lindsey Davis book Venus in Copper

Venus in Copper

“In an ideal world I ought to have gone with him to observe their reactions, but in an ideal world heroes never get tired or depressed; what's more, heroes are paid more than me.”

Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra

“We are Romans. We despise thought.”

Lindsey Davis book See Delphi and Die

See Delphi and Die

“Love and death are gritty subjects. Their appropriate handling by poets does not require myrtle petals and violets.”

Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra

“Never stop to breathe the pretty flower scents. The graves of the poor still stink.”

Lindsey Davis book The Accusers

The Accusers

“In fact, making up a spiteful lie has become respectable. Today's "jesters" are outright public nuisances.”

Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra

“To be born with nothing was grim. But to be born with everything, then to lose it, was far more cruel.”

Lindsey Davis book The Accusers

The Accusers

“Luck is a wonderful luxury. What could better prove that some are born under a star of good fortune than the career (and the large, comfortable home) of the Great King?”

Lindsey Davis book A Body in the Bath House

A Body in the Bath House

“I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could pay the butcher’s bill than by some mad limb like Nero, who was brought up believing himself the son and the grandson of gods, and who thought wearing the purple gave him free rein to indulge his personal vanities, execute real talent, bankrupt the Treasury, burn half of Rome – and bore the living daylights out of paying customers in theatres!”

Lindsey Davis book Shadows in Bronze

Shadows in Bronze

“Curiosity is a terrible inducement.”

Lindsey Davis book The Third Nero

The Third Nero

“The world is full of people slandering their birthplaces, as if they really believe that small-town life is different elsewhere.”

Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra

“They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.”

Lindsey Davis book The Third Nero

The Third Nero

“Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?”

Lindsey Davis book Alexandria

Alexandria

“Do you kill people?'
'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.”

Lindsey Davis book Time to Depart

Time to Depart