The Romans were a nation of homebodies. when they bestirred themselves at all, it was only to go and kill some other Italians. - Will Cuppy

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

Alexander III of Macedonia was born in 356 B.C., on the sixth day of the month of Lous. He is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time. (Footnote) He did this in order to impress Greek culture upon them. Alexander was not strictly a Greek and he was not cultured, but that was his story, and who am I to deny it?

[on the Borgias' illegitimate births] All children are natural, but some are more so than others and are therefore known as natural children.