“For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
Quotes by Procopius
“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
“For war is decided not by numbers of men nor their bodily size, but by the valor that is in the soul. Let the strongest motive that men have, then, enter your minds, namely pride in past achievement.”
Procopius
Procopius was a prominent Byzantine historian of the 6th century, best known for his detailed accounts of the reign of Emperor Justinian I. Born in Caesarea, he served as a legal advisor and secretary...