Quot c?lum stellas, tot habet tua Roma puellas=--There are as many girls in your Rome as there are stars in the sky.
Beleidigst du einen Monch, so knappen alle Kuttenzipfel bis nach Rom=--Offend but one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome.
Non Angli, sed angeli=--Not Angles, but angels. _Gregory the Great, on seeing some captive British youths for sale in the slave-market at Rome._
When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
Vixi dubius, anxius morior, nescio quo vado=--I have lived in doubt, I die in anxiety, and I know not whither I go.
Caput mundi=--The head of the world, _i.e._, Rome, both ancient and modern.
Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit=--He found a city of brick, and left it one of marble.
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome. [ De Laicis .]
Urbi et orbi=--For Rome (_lit._ the city) and the world.
Conjure with 'em,-- Brutus will start a spirit as soon as C?sar. Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our C?sar feed, That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
Essentially, this is undoubtedly what had to happen. But Rome as a state retained too much of pagan civilization and wisdom—for example, the very aims and basic principles of the state. Whereas Christ’s Church, having entered the state, no doubt could give up none of its own basic principles, of that rock on which it stood, and could pursue none but its own aims, once firmly established and shown to it by the Lord himself, among which was the transforming of the whole world, and therefore of the whole ancient pagan state, into the Church. Thus (that is, for future purposes), it is not the Church that should seek a definite place for itself in the state, like ‘any social organization’ or ‘organization of men for religious purposes’ (as the author I was objecting to refers to the Church), but, on the contrary, every earthly state must eventually be wholly transformed into the Church and become nothing else but the Church, rejecting whichever of its aims are incompatible with those of the Church. And all of this will in no way demean it, will take away neither its honor nor its glory as a great state, nor the glory of its rulers, but will only turn it from a false, still pagan and erroneous path, onto the right and true path that alone leads to eternal goals.
This people is not peculiar only by their antiquity, but also remarkable by their duration, which has been unbroken from their origin till now. For while the nations of Greece and Italy, of Lacedæmon, Athens and Rome, and others who came after, have long been extinct, these still remain, and in spite of the endeavours of many powerful princes who have a hundred times striven to destroy them, as their historians testify, and as we can easily understand by the natural order of things during so long a space of years, they have nevertheless been preserved, and extending from the earliest times to the latest, their history comprehends in its duration all our histories.
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun,[533-1] and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.[533-2]
I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome.
Not that I loved C?sar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Rom? Tibur amem, ventosus, Tibure Romam=--Fickle as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome, and Rome when at Tibur.
Quum Rom? fueris, Romano vivite more=--When you are at Rome live after the fashion at Rome.
Cromwell was about to ravage the whole of Christendom, the royal family had been brought to nought, and his own dynasty for ever established, but for a little grain of sand in his bladder. Rome herself began to tremble under him, but this scrap of gravel having got there, he dies, his family falls from power, peace is established, and the king restored.
Veiosque habitante Camillo, / Illic Roma fuit=--When Camillus dwelt at Veii, Rome was there.
Veni, vidi, vici=--I came, I saw, I conquered. _Julius C?sar's despatch, to a friend at Rome on his defeat of Pharnaces._
He has his Rome, his Florence, 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.--_Longfellow._
Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome=--The Romans will never be conquered except in Rome.
L'eloquence a fleuri le plus a Rome lorsque les affaires ont ete en plus mauvais etat=--Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition.
I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.
Ab urbe condita= (A.U.C.)--From the building of the city,
Chi lingua ha, a Roma va=--He who has a tongue may go to Rome,
I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
Zu Rom bestehen die 10 Gebote aus den 10 Buchstaben=; / _Da pecuniam_--=gieb Gelder=--At Rome the Ten Commandments consist of ten letters--
It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars, Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain; Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.
Quid Rom? faciam? mentiri nescio=--What should I do at Rome? I know not how to lie.
For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
And now that generations after generations have passed away, with their languages--adoring and worshipping the Name of God--preaching and dying in the Name of God--thinking and meditating on the Name of God--there the old word stands still, breathing to us the pure air of the dawn of humanity, carrying with it all the thoughts and sighs, the doubts and tears, of our bygone brethren, and still rising up to heaven with the same sound from the basilicas of Rome and the temples of Benares, as if embracing by its simple spell millions and millions of hearts in their longing desire to give utterance to the unutterable, to express the inexpressible.
L'institut des Jesuites est une epee, dont la poignee est a Rome et la pointe partout=--The order of the Jesuits is a sword, the handle of which is at Rome and the point everywhere.
In Rome the Ten Commandments consist of the ten letters, Da pecuniam, Give money.
"I had rather be first here than second in Rome."
But were I Brutus, / And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony / Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue / In every wound of C?sar, that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
If my Letters are condemned at Rome, what I condemn in them is condemned in heaven.
Not that I loved C?sar less, but that I loved Rome more.
The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd supposes. But the same feelings which in ancient Rome produced the apotheosis of a popular emperor, and in modern times the canonization of a devout prelate, lead men to cherish an illusion which furnishes them with something to adore.--_Macaulay._
Omnia venalia Rom?=--All things can be bought at Rome.
Presumption never stops in its first attempt. If Cæsar comes once to pass the Rubicon, he will be sure to march further on, even till he enters the very bowels of Rome, and breaks open the Capitol itself. He that wades so far as to wet and foul himself, cares not how much he trashes further.--_South._
Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
Silence is the greatest persecution; the saints never held their peace. It is true that a vocation is needed, it is not from the decrees of the Council that we must learn whether we are called, but from the compulsion to speak. Now after Rome has spoken, and we think that she has condemned the truth, and they have written it, and the books which have said the contrary are censured; we must cry so much the louder the more unjustly we are censured, and the more violently they try to stifle speech, until there come a pope who listens to both sides, and who consults antiquity to do justice.
Nihil unquam peccavit, nisi quod mortua est=--She never once sinned but when she died.
The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome. Its idea is liberty, indeed, but liberty with law, and law with liberty. Yet its mission is not so much the realization of liberty as the realization of the true idea of the State, which secures at once the authority of the public and the freedom of the individual — the sovereignty of the people without social despotism, and individual freedom without anarchy. In other words, its mission is to bring out in its life the dialectic union of authority and liberty, of the natural rights of man and those of society. [“Introduction”, The American Republic, 1865.]
Rom? rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem / Tollis ad astra levis=--At Rome you pine unsettled for the country, in the country you laud the distant city to the skies.
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of those of Greece and Rome--not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world, were alike despicable.
Three forms of asceticism have existed in this weak world. Religious asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake--as supposed--of religion; seen chiefly in the Middle Ages. Military asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of power; seen chiefly in the early days of Sparta and Rome. And monetary asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money; seen in the present days of London and Manchester.--_Ruskin._
I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
Of all the creatures that creep, swim or fly, Peopling the earth, waters and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think, the greatest fool is man.
Is ordo vitio careto, c?teris specimen esto=--Let this class (viz. the nobility of Rome) be free from vice and a pattern to the rest.
Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man.
A Rome comment a Rome=--At Rome do as Rome does.
Plutot une defaite au Rhin que l'abandon du Pape!=--Rather a defeat on the Rhine than abandon the Pope. _Louis Napoleon, to the proposal to buy the allegiance of Italy against Germany by the sacrifice of Rome._
Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit=--A city for sale and ripe for ruin, once it finds a purchaser.
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers!=--Sleepest thou, Brutus, and Rome in bonds!
O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
Romam cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque=--All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Deliberat Roma, perit Saguntum=--While Rome deliberates, Saguntum perishes.
Omnia Rom? / Cum pretio=--All things may be bought at Rome with money.
Dove e il Papa, ivi e Roma=--Where the Pope is, Rome is.
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
The world knows only two,--that 's Rome and I.
Tout chemin mene a Rome=--Every road leads to Rome.
'Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's self for Rome.
"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the world."
To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws. Despotism may for a time retard the concentration; democracy, allowing the most freedom, accelerates it. The relative equality of Americans before 1776 has been overwhelmed by a thousand forms of physical, mental and economic differentiation, so that the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest is now greater than at any time since Imperial plutocratic Rome. In progressive societies the concentration may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. [ The Lessons of History , Simon and Shuster, 1968, p. 55.]
Cunctando restituit rem=--He restored the cause (of Rome) by delay. _Said of Fabius, surnamed therefore Cunctator._
Roma locuta est; causa finita est=--Rome has spoken; the case is at an end.
Put a tongue In every wound of C?sar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Put a tongue / In every wound of C?sar that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
When you go to Rome, do as Rome does.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
It is folly to live in Rome and strive with the Pope.
Non possum ferre, Quirites, / Gr?cam urbem=--I cannot, Romans, endure a Grecian city, _i.e._, Greek or effeminate manners in stern old Rome.
That he would be king of the Jews and Gentiles. And we see this king of Jews and Gentiles oppressed by both, both equally conspiring his death, we see him bear rule over both, destroying the worship established by Moses in Jerusalem its centre, where he placed his earliest Church, as well as the worship of idols in Rome its centre, where he placed his chief Church.
Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melib?e, putavi, / Stultus ego, huic nostr? similem=--The city, Melib?us, which they call Rome, I foolishly imagined to be like this town of ours.
After his legs had been broken in an accident, Mr. Miller sued for damages, claming that he was crippled and would have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Although the insurance-company doctor testified that his bones had healed properly and that he was fully capable of walking, the judge decided for the plaintiff and awarded him $500,000. When he was wheeled into the insurance office to collect his check, Miller was confronted by several executives. "You're not getting away with this, Miller," one said. "We're going to watch you day and night. If you take a single step, you'll not only repay the damages but stand trial for perjury. Here's the money. What do you intend to do with it?" "My wife and I are going to travel," Miller replied. "We'll go to Stockholm, Berlin, Rome, Athens and, finally, to a place called Lourdes -- where, gentlemen, you'll see yourselves one hell of a miracle."
[From an announcement of a congress of the International Ontopsychology Association, in Rome]: The Ontopsychological school, availing itself of new research criteria and of a new telematic epistemology, maintains that social modes do not spring from dialectics of territory or of class, or of consumer goods, or of means of power, but rather from dynamic latencies capillarized in millions of individuals in system functions which, once they have reached the event maturation, burst forth in catastrophic phenomenology engaging a suitable stereotype protagonist or duty marionette (general, president, political party, etc.) to consummate the act of social schizophrenia in mass genocide.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus Caesar
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. -- St. Ambrose
-- John Heywood
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"My information dates from the day on which I was arrested," returned the Abbe Faria; "and as the emperor had created the kingdom of Rome for his infant son, I presume that he has realized the dream of Machiavelli and Caesar Borgia, which was to make Italy a united kingdom."
Nabis,(*) Prince of the Spartans, sustained the attack of all Greece, and of a victorious Roman army, and against them he defended his country and his government; and for the overcoming of this peril it was only necessary for him to make himself secure against a few, but this would not have been sufficient had the people been hostile. And do not let any one impugn this statement with the trite proverb that "He who builds on the people, builds on the mud," for this is true when a private citizen makes a foundation there, and persuades himself that the people will free him when he is oppressed by his enemies or by the magistrates; wherein he would find himself very often deceived, as happened to the Gracchi in Rome and to Messer Giorgio Scali(+) in Florence. But granted a prince who has established himself as above, who can command, and is a man of courage, undismayed in adversity, who does not fail in other qualifications, and who, by his resolution and energy, keeps the whole people encouraged--such a one will never find himself deceived in them, and it will be shown that he has laid his foundations well.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
"Really," said Albert, "I do not know; when I invited him three months ago, he was then at Rome, but since that time who knows where he may have gone?"
The Frenchman had been so impatient to reach the house of Thomson & French that he would not wait for the horses to be harnessed, but left word for the carriage to overtake him on the road, or to wait for him at the bankers' door. He reached it before the carriage arrived. The Frenchman entered, leaving in the anteroom his guide, who immediately entered into conversation with two or three of the industrious idlers who are always to be found in Rome at the doors of banking-houses, churches, museums, or theatres. With the Frenchman, the man who had followed him entered too; the Frenchman knocked at the inner door, and entered the first room; his shadow did the same.
"Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, 'Caesar wills that you die.' but it was a legate a latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, 'His holiness requests you to dine with him.'
18:2. And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome), he came to them.
The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniae[58] narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; the maillotins in the fourteenth century, the tire-laine of the fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's illuminated in the seventeenth, the chauffeurs [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic picareria, accepted the sewer as the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, fierce and sly, through the Maubuee outlet, as into a bed-chamber.
"That two executions of considerable interest will take place the day after to-morrow at two o'clock, as is customary at Rome at the commencement of all great festivals. One of the culprits will be mazzolato; [*] he is an atrocious villain, who murdered the priest who brought him up, and deserves not the smallest pity. The other sufferer is sentenced to be decapitato; [**] and he, your excellency, is poor Peppino."