Amor Quote by Chris Cleave

“Altius, citius, fortius—is”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Citius, Altius, Fortius. Faster, Higher, Stronger.”

— Olympic

“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead. I loved him more than any other comrade. I loved him like my head, my life,…

— Homer

“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal.”

— Juvenal

“Sp. Nautius and Sex. Furius were now consuls.”

— Livy

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

— Cassandra Clare

“Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one.”

— Gore Vidal

“The Roman greatness is a proof of the excellence of their legions,”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed…

— Edward Gibbon

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos