Colleen Mccullough

No matter how illustrious our ancestors might have been, in the end we still come to depend upon our progeny.

Rumor is one thing. A witness is quite another.

High in favor one moment, head separated from body the next.

Dead men kept the best secrets!

was someone to be used but never trusted

boredom. The one emotion no marriage could survive.

Living death is infinitely worse than real death.

Patricians obeyed no laws save those they respected.

I do think they suit for intelligence, as neither of them has any.

Death cheats one of the best victory, which is to spare one’s enemies the sight of defeat.