337 Quotes About Rome
- Author Dorothea Lasky
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A voice said to me, in summer language: Dottie, you are blessedAnd I felt the yellow light of the sun eating my face
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- Author Kris Kidd
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They say you can’t build Rome in a day, but I’m pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.
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- Author Dorothea Lasky
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The blue night with treesEverything told me to feel somethingAnd yet everything you said was a lie And all my emotions were for nothing
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- Author Dorothea Lasky
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Perverse obsessionsAnd it is only nowThat I realize I am bleedingNow no air now deadAnd that it was your careful strikeThat made it so
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- Author Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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- Author Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you have a library in your garden, everything will be complete.
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- Author Steve Madison
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Why did the Roman Empire - the greatest civilizing force there has ever been - fall? It was because it became infected at every level by the negative liberty of Christianity. The Roman people started thinking of their personal salvation rather than their collective strength. Once the poison of individualism has spread among the people, Rome's fate was sealed. The collective collapsed. The Dark Ages came upon the West. Once the cohesion of the people has gone, everything fails.
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- Author Francesco Petrarca
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Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to place myself in spirit in other ages, and consequently I delighted in history.
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- Author Gore Vidal
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Nothing man invents can last forever, including Christ, his most mischievous invention.
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