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“Storytelling is the very soul of humankind made plain for all to experience.”
John Appius Quill“Storytelling is the very soul of humankind made plain for all to experience.”
John Appius Quill“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Appius Claudius Caecus“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.”
Claudius“I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.”
Robert Graves, I, Claudius“But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.”
Robert Graves, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina“I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.”
Robert Graves, I, Claudius“To do no evil is good, to intend none better.”
Claudius, Roman Emperor“I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.”
Robert Graves, I, Claudius“The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.”
Robert Graves, I, Claudius“In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet