Status Updates From I, Claudius

Once I got past the kinda-boring start, it picked up. Targaryens got some inspo from Livia, I am sure.

“ My grandmother was a consummate actress, and the outward purity of her conduct, the sharpness of her wit and the graciousness of her manners deceived nearly everybody. But nobody really liked her: malignity commands respect, not liking. She had a faculty for making ordinary easy-going people feel acutely conscious in her presence of their intellectual and moral shortcomings.”