I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

by Robert Graves

For my experience as a historian is that more documents survive by chance than by intention.

“It’s not disillusion, sir. I see now, though I hadn’t considered the matter before, that there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.

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.” There