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21 " It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice. "
― Lindsey Davis , A Dying Light in Corduba (Marcus Didius Falco, #8)
22 " Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest. "
― Lindsey Davis , The Graveyard of the Hesperides (Flavia Albia Mystery, #4)
23 " We both had a tender regard for this god. Min had not only helped us learn something material; more importantly, his presence had helped Tiberius. Working in disguise at the lettuce booth, though ludicrous, had taken his mind off his troubles after the lightning strike. Min had restored my man to me. "
― Lindsey Davis , Pandora's Boy (Flavia Albia Mystery #6)
24 " Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail. "
― Lindsey Davis , The Jupiter Myth (Marcus Didius Falco #14)
25 " They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls. "
― Lindsey Davis , See Delphi and Die (Marcus Didius Falco, #17)
26 " 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 , Shadows in Bronze (Marcus Didius Falco, #2)
27 " Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos. "
― Lindsey Davis , The Third Nero (Flavia Albia Mystery #5)
28 " The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on. "
― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)
29 " All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with. "
30 " Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose. "
31 " The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die. "
32 " We marched him to the turfy shack where he lived with his parents and while the youth sulked Petronius Longus put the whole moral issue in succinct terms to them: Ollia’s father was a legionary veteran who had served in Egypt and Syria for over twenty years until he left with double pay, three medals, and a diploma that made Ollia legitimate; he now ran a boxers’ training school where he was famous for his high-minded attitude and his fighters were notorious for their loyalty to him… The old fisherman was a toothless, hapless, faithless cove you would not trust too near you with a filleting knife, but whether from fear or simple cunning he co-operated eagerly. The lad agreed to marry the girl and since Silvia would never abandon Ollia here, we decided that the fisherboy had to come back with us to Rome. His relations looked impressed by this result. We accepted it as the best we could achieve. "
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― Lindsey Davis , Venus in Copper (Marcus Didius Falco, #3)
34 " Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué, todo fluye, captas cómo funciona... "
― Lindsey Davis , The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)
35 " Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord. "
36 " Petronius would take his free bread buns and run. I happened to know that since Petro had been elected to the watch he had never cast a vote. He believed a man on a public salary should be impartial. I didn’t agree but I admired him being so stubborn in his eccentricities. Aufidius Crispus would be an unusual politician if he had allowed for such morality in the voters he was courting. "
37 " this was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug. "
38 " Spies have no sense of timing. "
39 " We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass. "
40 " Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That’s the tragedy of life. "