Citizens Quote by Augustus

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed…

— Augustus

“If Rome were a woman, she’d be a whore.”

— Elizabeth Geoghegan

“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready to obey…

— Livy

Rome alone can resist Rome.

— Pierre Corneille

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

— Moliere

“I realized then how odd it must seem to them to be summoned by a woman. Roman women were at home quietly minding their…

— Margaret George

I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want…

— Martin Shaw

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

— Michel de Montaigne

Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help…

— Edward Gibbon

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

— Pierre Corneille

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

— Hannibal

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

— Pope Alexander VI