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“No one gets a medal for suffering the most, you know,' ...”

Suffering Sarah J Maas Medal Move On Crescent City House Of Earth And Blood Be Kind To Yourself Justinian Not A Competition

Book:House of Earth and Blood

Source: House of Earth and Blood

“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.”

Funny Anarchy Lol Laws Mind Your Own Business Melville Moby Dick Justinian Chinese Society Pandects

Book:Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”

History Rome Roman History Byzantium Justinian

Author:Procopius of Caesarea

“I arrived in Constantinople not a week ago with great joy in my heart because I was to meet the most pious prince, Justinian Augustus, defender of orthodoxy and of the Roman Empire. But yea, where I sought the most Christian Emperor, I have found, instead, Diocletian.”

Catholicism Heresy Orthodoxy Justinian Theodora Diocletian Monophysitism Paraphrase Liber Pontificalis Pope Agapetus

Book:Belisarius Book III: Rome the Eternal

Source: Belisarius Book III: Rome the Eternal

“At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.”

Long Nations Church Standing Western Greek Beast Empires Rome Fourth Reign Emperor Dominion Bishops Continuance Justinian

Book:Observations

Source: Observations

“A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.”

Men Desire Justice Principles Majority Constant Dues Every Man Code Perpetual Justinian

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of his false prophet on the whole world”

“We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.”

Needs Mind Humans Wells Book Law Honor Rose University Entertainment Dues Former Code Latter Human Mind Instruction Reign Recreation Vines Olives Cannons Myrtle Justinian

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.”

Men Writing Said Water Common Air Sea Century Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ads Seashore Flowing Water Justinian

Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .”

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Author:John William Draper

“On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.”

Whole Inspiration Lasts Faith Charity Christian Inspirational Aphorism Examination Paragraph Last Day Syllabus Justinian

Author:Robert Bellarmine