P. A. H. Zada

“Claudius knew a good deal about Etruscan history. Among his many learned researches he had written a twenty-volume study of the Etruscans, in Greek, as well as compiling an Etruscan dictionary.”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

“And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: ‘They called it, in their ignorance, “civilisation”, but it was really part of their enslavement’ (‘Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset’).”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

“even the British left-wing Fabian Society adopted his name and example – the message being, ‘if you want the revolution to be successful, you must, like Fabius, bide your time’.”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

“Si l'on se contentait de l'écouter il semblait admirable, mais si on le questionnait, il se révélait nul.
De loin son arbre tout feuillu attirait les yeux mais quand on le regardait de plus près et avec plus de soin, on s'apercevait qu'il n'y avait point de fruit.
Abélard critiquant Anselme de Cantorbéry.”
― Jacques Le Goff, Intellectuals in the Middle Ages