Ignorance Quote by Charles Spurgeon

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general…

— Stacy Schiff

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and…

— Edward Gibbon

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of…

— Letitia Baldrige

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin…

— John William Draper

“She thought back to what Roman had said. That the power rested in her lap. The problem was that internalizing that revelation also meant…

— Anne Mallory

“According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.”

— Edward Gibbon

“A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her…

— George Eliot

“Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she wills: death…

— Michel de Montaigne

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible…

— Lord Acton

If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take this one…

— Stephen Nichols