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Image of Isaac Newton
In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.
- Isaac Newton
Collection: Rome
Image of Rick Riordan
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Gore Vidal
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
- Gore Vidal
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Image of Tacitus
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
- Tacitus
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Image of Anthony Trollope
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
- Anthony Trollope
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Image of Noah Webster
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
- Noah Webster
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Image of Mark Twain
What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Horace
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
- Horace
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Image of Kanye West
Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome
- Kanye West
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Image of Margaret Mitchell
These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.
- Margaret Mitchell
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of William Shakespeare
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Walter Scott
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
- Walter Scott
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Image of Saul Bellow
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
- Saul Bellow
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Image of Joseph Addison
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
- Joseph Addison
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Image of Tacitus
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
- Tacitus
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Image of Rick Riordan
It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
When in Rome, do as Rome does.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Richard Siken
I am singing now while Rome burns.
- Richard Siken
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Image of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rome is an astonishment!
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Image of Pope Benedict XVI
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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Image of Adam Weishaupt
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
- Adam Weishaupt
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Image of William Shakespeare
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Ron Paul
The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Gore Vidal
I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.
- Gore Vidal
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Image of Horace
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.
- Horace
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Image of Dan Simmons
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
- Dan Simmons
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Image of Pope Leo XIII
You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
- Pope Leo XIII
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Image of Alan Titchmarsh
I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.
- Alan Titchmarsh
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Image of Roger Williams
The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the reign of the beast and antichrist of Rome. This witness is probably near finished, and the bloody storm of slaughter is yet to be expected and prepared for.
- Roger Williams
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Image of Sandra Cisneros
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!
- Sandra Cisneros
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Image of Ambrose
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
- Ambrose
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Image of Ambrose
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Ambrose
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
- Ambrose
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Image of Ambrose
When in Rome, live in the Roman way.
- Ambrose
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Image of Shana Alexander
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?
- Shana Alexander
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Image of Michael Scheuer
We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.
- Michael Scheuer
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Image of Ambrose
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
- Ambrose
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Image of Ambrose
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
- Ambrose
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Image of Richard Rodriguez
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.
- Richard Rodriguez
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Image of Julius Streicher
Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.
- Julius Streicher
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Image of Miguel de Cervantes
When you are at Rome, do as you see.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Image of George Carlin
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.
- George Carlin
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Image of Michael Bierut
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.
- Michael Bierut
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Image of Muhammad Ali
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
- Muhammad Ali
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Image of Anthony Burgess
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
- Anthony Burgess
Collection: Rome