Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon 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
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore 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
