Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.”
― Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

“that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces”
― Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

“Just like any electorate, they delighted in making candidates for their favors sweat.”
― Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic