Cassius Dio Quotes
Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore, go against them trusting boldly to good fortune. Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves. - Boudica
Quotes to Explore
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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If you're straight, if you're gay - hey, if you're a horse - and I appeal to you, great!
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
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A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
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Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
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Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore, go against them trusting boldly to good fortune. Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves. - Boudica
