Statements Quote by George Henry Lewes

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

— Edith Hamilton

A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution

— Claude C. Hopkins

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be…

— Will Cuppy

“Ah! How little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much. And when I actually find it…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

— John Milton

“There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her…

— Filson Young

“I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“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

A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think…

— Gordon Korman

Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said…

— Kenny Smith

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

— Seneca the Younger

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

— Victor Hugo