The Secret History Quotes

“For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
― Procopius, The Secret History

“As things went from bad to worse all men came to learn by experience that man's innate wickedness knows no limit: when it feeds on the knowledge of the past, and when the licence which impunity bestows encourages it to victimise all whom it encounters, it seems to swell inevitably to such proportions that it is not even possible for the minds of the sufferers to grasp its immensity.”
― Procopius, The Secret History

“How could anyone find words to describe Justinian’s character?”
― Procopius, The Secret History