Athens Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense,…

— Edward Everett

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of…

— Thucydides

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say…

— Ali Smith

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders…

— Brendan Myers

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes…

— Will Durant

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five…

— Eleanora Duse

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not…

— Richard Rodriguez

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed…

— David Brainerd

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up…

— Michael Korda