Fiction Quote by Michael G. Kramer

“The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could escape a…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“That both things could be true at once—my disbelief as well as my certainty—was the unification of the ancient and the future parts of…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the…

— Michael G. Kramer

“Rome wasn’t built on mutual admiration.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“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

“It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of…

— Mary Alice Monroe

“Our lives and the lives of future generations do not only depend on the conflicts that take place, but also on the solutions we…

— Widad Akreyi

“Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”

— Jennifer Worth

“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.”

— Emil Cioran

“Circumstances bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with everyone in a lifetime.”

— Jennifer Worth

“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy