Rome Quotes
New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.
In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.
Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.
...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...
I don't know what you have thought of. Everyone thinks to the extent of his depravity..." #HenriettaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion
You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:
You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion
Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear
Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.
Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.
But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.
Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea.
Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.
History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.
when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail
Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses
Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction
The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.
Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love was indeed a madness.
They say you can’t build Rome in a day, but I’m pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.
That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.
It was no wonder they thought us to be immortal––our nightly celebrations put Olympus to shame.
They think they are invincible. But, the truth is, Nova––gods fall just as hard as mortals. The only difference is... gods do not see the fall coming until it is too late.
That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...
They're Lares. House gods.""House gods, " Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Look, " Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-""He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.