Care Quote by Polybius

“In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before…

— Mary Beard

“In the year 754 BC, on the hills near the Tiber River, the Romans founded their capital city, Rome. During the 6th century BC,…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

— Norman F. Cantor

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.

— Paolo Sorrentino

“There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“What can you possibly say about Rome? That it's eternal? That all roads lead to it? That it wasn't built in a day? That…

— Shawn Levy

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

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

— Goldwin Smith

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are…

— Arthur Erickson