A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey… — Edward Gibbon 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 younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more… — Livy Copy Share Image
“Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the United States did not ratify the 1998 Rome Statute that founded the ICC. Successive administrations have stood by… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The more we create, the more we love and lose those whom we love, the more we escape from death. With every… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
“Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only… — Rome Sims Copy Share Image
Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music,… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests… — Joachim du Bellay Copy Share Image
The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
“Popes come and go, empires clash, new worlds arise, but Rome is eternally Rome, which is to say that its people were… — Sara Poole Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
I had a lot of success in big tournaments as well - won Masters Series in Rome - so a lot of… — Alexander Zverev Copy Share Image
Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role,… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
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