#romans

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. ↗

— Titus Livius

#freedom #had #king #old #over

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#art #back #enhancing #food #go

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#built #footwear #great #had #highways

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. ↗

— Pyrrhus

#over #romans #such #undone #victory

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#i #i think #necessary #romans #should

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#citizen #every #free #free state #greeks

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#american people #any #bowl #bread #comfortable

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul. ↗

— Hans Kung

#extremely #important #paul #romans #synthesis

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#live #romans #rome