Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute! — Gannicus Copy Share Image
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there. — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...]… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions,… — George Hodges Copy Share Image
“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call… — Manda Scott Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“The book of Romans goes deep, deep into our souls, and we can only stand what we see there because Romans also… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians… — Polybius Copy Share Image
In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous,… — Michael Korda 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
“The obsession with decline found on the alt-right today comes from a long conservative line of thought, who regularly drew upon books… — Angela Nagle Copy Share Image
“Now we see again, under the blue heavens where the larks are singing in the hot April sky, why the Romans called… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It is not coincidence that, as Raymond Money puts it, “from the pyramids of Egypt, the rebuilding of Rome after Nero’s fire,… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The celebrated maxim of the Romans, not to undertake two great wars at the same time, is so well known and so… — Antoine-Henri Jomini 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
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