“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.” — Kamal Salibi Copy Share Image
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.” — Cato Copy Share Image
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet” — Noel Hynd Copy Share Image
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“The Romans had a great general named Cincinnatus. The legend is that he had wanted to live quietly on his farm but… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps -… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“We can build cities for the Romans.” “Actually, I was thinking about saving mankind.” “Forget that nonsense, Josh. Rocks, I tell you.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans,… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
“By our warriors having a written German language, we can rob the Romans of the advantages that they currently hold over us.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, choose the… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love Rome. Partly because Romans aren't precious about their history and because they've got the lifestyle thing pretty sorted out. It's… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Brave and loyal followers! Long ago we resolved to serve neither the Romans nor anyone other than God Himself, who alone is… — Josephus Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Romans’ ideal was torn between heroism and glory. Both are epitomized in the instant of death. To die ‘fine death’ was… — Pascal Quignard Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
