Ancient Quote by Henri Pirenne

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant

“The classical heritage as shaped by and filtered through Roman culture had two great flaws. First, it prevented the very rich oral cultures of…

— Norman F. Cantor

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon

“In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were…

— George Hodges

But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the…

— Edward Gibbon

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except…

— William J Federer

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

— Benito Mussolini

“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after battle but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

— Owen Wilson