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I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power… — Horace Copy Share Image
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“The camp offices stood in the centre, adjoining the shrine to Jupiter that held the legion’s Eagle. In the camps of the… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
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“In the General History of Africa, we come across very impressive facts about the culture of primitive African peoples. It is known,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
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“Why not now?’ Horgias said. ‘We could go back in now and take it.’ ‘You can certainly try.’ Pantera rolled his tongue… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,… — Jiang Rong Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
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[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Villicus Vadum: Soldier Of Fortune by Stewart Stafford I am the ghost of lupine Romulus, Founder of Rome, hear my tale, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
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“Man is comprised of an organism, which is to say an organised form, and of vital forces, as well as a soul.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
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“Men like Caesar and Pompey--they're not heroes, Meto. They're monsters. They call their greed and ambition "honour," and to satisfy their so-called… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
“ Rome: Did You Know This? Rome is often called the Eternal City. The spirits of ancient civilizations live on in monuments… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence… — John Williams Copy Share Image
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![“Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7f/edward-gibbon-710_age_women-in-ancient-rome-were-condemned-to_2414906.png)
![“[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.” quote by George Lucas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/george-lucas-1038_ancient_in-ancient-rome-why-did-the-senate-after_1672460.png)
