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Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

hostis (a 'foreigner' or an 'enemy'; the same Latin word, significantly, can mean both)

letters of Cicero

At the same time, in Rome, fears about outsiders flooding into the city were whipped up in a way familiar from many modern campaigns of xenophobia.

For the origin of literature at Rome was closely connected with Roman overseas expansion: 'The Muse imposed herself in warlike fashion on the fierce inhabitants of Rome,' as one second-century BCE author described it.

SPQR takes its title from another famous Roman catchphrase, Senatus PopulusQue Romanus, 'The Senate and People of Rome'.

Suetonius, in his series of biographies The Twelve Caesars

a parade of reluctance has often provided a useful cover for ruthless ambition.

For me, as much as for anyone else, the Romans are a subject not just of history and inquiry but also of imagination and fantasy, horror and fun.

If being a decent soul is maternal, then fine. I'll call it human

In no event shall any environmental regulations or standards of South Dakota be applicable to this project.

Dark humor might have offended some on the other side of the blue line, but it was how cops coped with very grim realities.

the things you hate are only your body being knocked about by phenomena

Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.

and France, that fancy education you're so proud of.

A shrink?" She threw Jenny a look and said, "He's a psychologist, actually." "Oh. A mini-shrink.

Writing something down cannot change in any significant way our mental representation of it, for it is the mental representation that gives birth to the written form, not vice versa.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author

He'd become The Guardian, when all he really was, was a half-rabid food driven by vengeance and hate.

You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.