“I agree with Heine's remark, that if the Romans had been forced to learn it (Latin) they would not have found time… — Fergus Hume Copy Share Image
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
“In Romans 1:4, the phrase “in power” (has been) widely argued by scholars that Paul added these words to the creed.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
“In the year 540 B.C. or thereabouts, on the island of Samos, there came to power a tyrant named Polycrates. He seems… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“The historian, Toynbee, has said: “The Primitive Arabs who were the ruling element of the Umayyad Caliphate called themselves ‘the swarthy people’… — Aylmer Von Fleischer Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The Persian Version Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“In the year 754 BC, on the hills near the Tiber River, the Romans founded their capital city, Rome. During the 6th… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“That Roman Peace was designed to last forever. When Diocletian perfected it, its economy was so thoroughly planned and so well administered… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“In his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the eighteenth-century British historian Edward Gibbon describes the scene of Romans fleeing the… — Charles London Copy Share Image
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, -… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. — Livy Copy Share Image
“Kiedy się zakochamy, zawsze najpierw oszukujemy siebie, a na koniec nieodmiennie zwodzimy innych. To właśnie świat nazywa romansem.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Plato, however, in the “Laws,” classes the Celts among the races who are drunken and combative, and much barbarity is attributed to… — T.W. Rolleston Copy Share Image
“...discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians,… — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
The Roman arena was technically a level playing field. But on one side were the lions with all the weapons, and on… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both… — Nicholas Sekunda Copy Share Image
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The long existence of the Roman Empire had everything to do with the legions. While the legions were strong, Rome was strong.… — Stephen Dando-Collins Copy Share Image
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