I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

by Robert Graves

I like having two tasks going at the same time: when I tire of one I turn to the other.

To use the majesty of law for revenging any petty act of private spite is to make a public confession of weakness, cowardice and an ignoble spirit.”

Claudius, remember what scorn old Athenodorus had for such impossible contingencies: he used to say, “If the Wooden Horse of Troy had foaled, horses to-day would cost far less to feed.”