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All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? — Reg · 1979Comedy (film)1 quote
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? — Reg · 1979Historical literature1 quote
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. — Edward Gibbon · 1776Philosophical literature1 quote
The papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Political literature1 quote
The papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651