Fall Of Rome Quotes

• Una gran civilización no es conquistada desde fuera hasta que no se ha destruido a sí misma desde dentro.

  Ariel Durant

  Mujeres, Memorable, Civilización

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). "La historia de la civilización: César y Cristo, una historia de la civilización romana y del cristianismo desde sus comienzos hasta el año 325 d.C."

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• Cuando caiga el Coliseo, caerá Roma; Y cuando caiga Roma... el Mundo.

  Lord Byron

  Caída, Roma, Mundo

  Peregrinación de Childe Harold' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

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• Los diversos modos de culto que prevalecían en el mundo romano eran todos considerados por el pueblo como igualmente verdaderos; por el filósofo, como igualmente falsos; y por el magistrado, como igualmente útiles.

  Edward Gibbon

  Roma, Gente, Historia

  Decadencia y caída del Imperio Romano cap. 2 (1776 - 1788)

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  Si tienes que violar la ley, hazlo para hacerte con el poder: en todos los demás casos, obsérvala.

  Julio César

  Military, Bad Ass, Law

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• Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

  Julio César

  Moving On, Death, Wisdom

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• La arrogancia de la oficialidad debe ser moderada y controlada, y la ayuda a manos extranjeras debe ser restringida, no sea que Roma caiga.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Paz, guerra, otoño

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• The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

  Cullen Murphy

  Fall, Makeup, Rome

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• In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fall, Rome, Christianity

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• The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.

  Orosius

  Time, Fall, Past

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Powerful, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fall, Reading, Rome

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.341, Random House

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Book, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1

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• My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join me in prayer:
  Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization. . .

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Prayer, Fall, Struggle

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). "The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt", Gramercy

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• I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Rome, Historical

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.

  Stefan Zweig

  War, Fall, Two

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