Quotes from Ross Laidlaw

ABC I taught you when dealing with the Romans. A: accept nothing; B: believe nobody; C: check everything.

how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.

If, simply by nodding, you would acquire great riches, but at the same time bring about the death of an unknown mandarin in distant China – would you nod?

Nothing is lost; destruction is only a name for a change of substance Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, c. 50 BC