Children Quote by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps - that are…

— Garry Kasparov

“By being a citizen of Rome, a man gained honor, wealth, and security. The Latins, therefore, became eager to obtain this title, and used…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I am. A…

— Philippa Gregory

“Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and…

— Livy

“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how right the…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“ The might of Rome Roman power was based on a well-disciplined, well-equipped army. A Roman legion was composed of 60 centuries, and each…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

“we are dealing with a new kind of army altogether, no longer held together in the solidarity of a common citizenship. As that tie…

— H.G. Wells

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

— Philip Sidney

“The Roman greatness is a proof of the excellence of their legions,”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland

The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure .…

— Livy