First step Quote by Mary Beard

“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way…

— Catharine Arnold

“They pretended they were trying to dissuade people from vice by enumerating its horrors. But they were really only making it more spicy by…

— Aldous Huxley

“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.”

— Norman Mailer

“At length they gradually deviated into a taste for those luxuries which stimulate to vice; porticos, and baths, and the elegancies of the table;…

— Tacitus

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses…

— Suzanne Collins

“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“As a monarch who should care more for the outlying colonies he knows on the map or through the report of his vicegerents, than…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Now we see again, under the blue heavens where the larks are singing in the hot April sky, why the Romans called the Etruscans…

— D.H. Lawrence

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their enemy be…

— Wayne Allyn Root

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military…

— Edward Gibbon

“Most vices… demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is…

— Aldous Huxley

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of…

— Edmund Burke