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«The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»
Author: Michael Armstrong
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«Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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«The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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footwear, highways, inconvenient, paved, Romans, the Romans
«They (the Romans) make a desert, and they call it peace»
«To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.»
«Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4).»
«There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The Romans taught their children nothing that was to be learned sitting»
«The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.»
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