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The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1) QUOTES

The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1) QUOTES

1 " The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

2 " forbearance down as virtues intrinsic to his own "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

3 " I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, scraped, and massaged by slaves, but Gaius Marius preferred to do his own dirty work, even now. Mind you, at forty-seven he was still a fine figure of a man. Nothing to be ashamed of about his physique! No matter how ostensibly inert his days might be, he got in a fair amount of exercise, worked with the dumbbells and the closhes, swam if he could several times across the Tiber in the reach called the Trigarium, then ran all the way back from the far perimeter of the Campus Martius to his house on the flanks of the Capitoline Arx. His hair was getting a bit thin on top, but he still had enough dark brown curls to brush forward into a respectable coiffure. There. That would have to do. A beauty he had never been, never would be. A good face - even an impressive one - but no rival for Gaius Julius Caesar's! "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

4 " Great literature was never intended to be either facsimile or echo of real life; it was meant to shut out real life for a while, to free the harried mind from mundane considerations, so that the mind could holiday amid glorious language and vivid word-pictures and inspiring or alluring ideas. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

5 " True democracy is a Greek philosophic unattainable. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

6 " There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists. It isn’t healthy to think about other people ahead of oneself. Other people are not as deserving. Did I tell you I was a Skeptic? "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

7 " What can I do when there is no courage in me, Father? Where does courage come from? Why did I not receive my share? "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

8 " The Julius Caesars are directly descended from the goddess Venus through her grandson Iulus, son of her son Aeneas. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

9 " La buena literatura nunca había tenido por objeto ser un ejemplo o eco de la vida real, sino que estaba hecha para abstraer al lector momentáneamente de la vida, liberando su mente de consideraciones para posibilitar su solaz con el glorioso lenguaje de vívidas composiciones de palabras en forma de ideas imaginarias o fantasiosas. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

10 " ¿Es que diréis acaso con toda sinceridad que preferís el gesto suicida de Leónidas a la brillante estrategia de Temístocles? "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

11 " There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

12 " and what is generally believed is far more important than what is actually the truth. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

13 " ¿Y qué sucederá si el premio no vale la pena? Nunca vale la pena. Pero ninguno lo hacemos por eso. Corremos contra nosotros mismos. Soy capaz y voy a hacerlo. Pero es solo a mí a quién importa. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)

14 " I do not require an apology from you for any of the rest of us, for you have lost our love and respect, and that renders apologies valueless. "

― Colleen McCullough , The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)