Marius

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow.”
― George Macaulay Trevelyan

“I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”
― Henri Barbusse

“I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.”
― Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians