Life Quote by John Corwin

“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood as a…

— Rod Bennett

“An investigation of the origin of Christianity in the Roman world shows that cooperative unions for poverty, sickness, and burial sprang up in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking…

— Mary Beard

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

“Popes come and go, empires clash, new worlds arise, but Rome is eternally Rome, which is to say that its people were busy as…

— Sara Poole

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually…

— Lewis H. Lapham

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

— Tacitus

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled…

— Abraham Kuyper

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great…

— Herman Melville

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“that Rome (if one does not yet know it) has an oppressingly sad effect for the first few days: through the lifeless and doleful…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell