Dreams Quote by Will Durant

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

— Anonymous

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

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that…

— Goldwin Smith

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

— Goldwin Smith

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith

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

— Livy

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

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended…

— Bud Wilkinson

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

— Alice Meynell

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

— Walter Scott

“Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her…

— Tom Holland