Albius Tibullus Quotes

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Words are the only things that last forever.

Let Rome’s art tell the empire’s story.