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The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.