Rome Quotes

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  I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Sports, Latin, Bad Ass

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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• Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Travel, Echoes, Cities

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• What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Traitor, Built, Unarmed

  "In Rufinum". II. 52. Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 677, 1922.

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Cities, Bricks

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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• Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

  Robert De Niro

  Italian, Changed

  "Robert De Niro: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, New York

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Expansion, World, Today

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• When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

  Ambrose

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• Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

  Robert Browning

  Late, Rounds

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Thinking, Different, Path

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• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Spiritual, Civilization, Life And Death

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.61

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• Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

  Pope John Paul II

  Feet, Land, Today

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• If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

  Ambrose

  Style, Elsewhere, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 677, 1922.

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• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• Rome wasn't built in a day.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Change, Built

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.75, Dial Press

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• When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

  Ambrose

  Giving, Church, Milan

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 677, 1922.

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• When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, World, Coliseum

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

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• See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Broken, Arches

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.98

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• Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Loss, People

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• Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

  Anatole Broyard

  Cities

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• There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Memories, Evil

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• When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Political, Politics

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.656, Wordsworth Editions

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