That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
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