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Age of Enlightenment1 quote
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. — Edward Gibbon · 1794Classical antiquity1 quote
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Caesar Augustus · 121The Renaissance1 quote
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. — William Shakespeare · 1599