Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. — Livy Copy Share Image
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace Copy Share Image
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome;… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Sidonius lives in a world already half barbarian, yet in the year before the Western Empire falls he is still dreaming of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors… — Charles Chiniquy Copy Share Image
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
“The history of Italy, and especially of Rome, is intertwined with the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Rome became tied to… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
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