Bored Quote by Robert Payne

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

— Juvenal

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Garry Kasparov

“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after battle but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

— Livy

“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

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

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years…

— Winston Churchill