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“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and…

— Plutarch

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What…

— Peter Greenaway

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble…

— Eleanor Clark

“Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of ‘fossils’ – in…

— Mary Beard

“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.”

— Rodney Stark

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience…

— Edward Gibbon

“that was how plenty of people felt in 634 BC in Rome, as well, when they were convinced that the city was destined to…

— Oliver Burkeman

“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

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

— Graham Joyce