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“A lot of history was going to be made round Messana; he could feel it coming. History is always bad for business.”

“ ‘I suppose there was a time when I could have made a stand,’ Lepidus continued in a puzzled tone. ‘But I don’t know when it was.’ ”

After Lepidus becomes one of the three most powerful men in the state by accident:
“To himself Eunomus reflected that a question had been settled which had long puzzled him. Luck was the prime mover of the universe, not intelligence or courage. Well, if he himself had met with undeserved misfortune, he was now private secretary to the luckiest member of the human race; there might be a future in that.”

Caesar: “There’s no call to snigger. On great occasions I’m all for the expression of noble sentiments; it’s just my misfortune that my genius always puts flippancies into my mouth instead. With Lepidus as colleague I shall rule more worthily than if I shared power with anyone else. You see, I suffer from bright ideas. […] I can never remember that some things are part of Rome, and must never be altered.”

“Junia admitted to herself that Marcus did not fear death; considering his ancestry and his education it would have been odd if he did. But he was afraid of so many other things, the public opinion of his equals, the hatred of the mob, the displeasure of the gods, poverty, disgrace, insignificance, that in effect he often reasoned like a coward.”