Rome Quotes

“I would rather be vanquished by a barbarian than ruled by a Greek.”

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

“He who has not seen the Court of Rome has seen nothing.”

“The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture.”

“Carthago delenda est.”

“The Oriental world, though it formed part of the Roman Empire, was never truly Romanized.”

“The court of Rome is like the sea, into which all rivers run, and it is never filled.”

“From every point of view, the Roman Empire was essentially Mediterranean. All its activities were concentrated on the shores of this sea.”

“What happened was a slow and gradual change, a shifting of the centre of gravity in the life of the Empire.”

“Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.”

“The main problem of the Roman Empire may be summed up in the words: the absorption of the proletariat.”

“Aspicite, o cives, senis Enni imaginis formam. Hic vestrum panxit maxima facta patrum.”

“The crisis of the third century was not a crisis of this or that branch of the life of the state: it was a general crisis.”

“The main feature of the social evolution of the early Empire was the gradual absorption of the higher classes of the provinces into the ruling aristocracy of the Roman state.”

“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings.”

“Of all things that are in the world, the most admirable is the structure of the Roman constitution.”