If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
“In Romans 1:4, the phrase “in power” (has been) widely argued by scholars that Paul added these words to the creed.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, -… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. — Livy Copy Share Image
“In the year 540 B.C. or thereabouts, on the island of Samos, there came to power a tyrant named Polycrates. He seems… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Greeks rebult Athens, building the incredible Acropolis and the blackened columns of the original Parthenon were set into the walls. The… — Julian Noyce Copy Share Image
“John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
“That really your kind of crowd? These effete psychos who want to relive the seedier aspects of the Roman empire? These are… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon 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
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“And dozens of tiny hands reached up, and cast back dozens of tiny hoods. The robes fell away, revealing a motley of… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“It was necessary, therefore, to Moses that he should find the people of Israel in Egypt enslaved and oppressed by the Egyptians,… — Waxkeep Publishing Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The Persian Version Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Kiedy się zakochamy, zawsze najpierw oszukujemy siebie, a na koniec nieodmiennie zwodzimy innych. To właśnie świat nazywa romansem.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Greek army refused to move an inch forward against the nations whose very name, according to Alexander, struck his soldiers with… — Dr Jayaswal Copy Share Image
My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
“The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“I agree with Heine's remark, that if the Romans had been forced to learn it (Latin) they would not have found time… — Fergus Hume Copy Share Image
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
“Remember the warning of F. F. Bruce: "Be prepared—to conscientiously study Romans is to invite cataclysmic change ... but a change that… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have… — Livy Copy Share Image
The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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