Justinian Quotes

“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
― Procopius of Caesarea

“No one gets a medal for suffering the most, you know,' ...”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I arrived in Constantinople not a week ago with great joy in my heart because I was to meet the most pious prince, Justinian Augustus, defender of orthodoxy and of the Roman Empire. But yea, where I sought the most Christian Emperor, I have found, instead, Diocletian.”
― Paolo Belzoni, Belisarius Book III: Rome the Eternal