A.H. Septimius Quotes
To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?
They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.
Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.
The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.
There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.
History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.
Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.
What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.
If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.
Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.
Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.
Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked upon water. She, it was said, was graced with a gentle touch which tamed the most vicious of men.
Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.
