„Rome alone can resist Rome.“

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— Pierre Corneille, Sertorius

Rome seule aujourd'hui peut résister à Rome.
Viriate, act II, scene i.
Sertorius (1662)

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Rome seule aujourd'hui peut résister à Rome.

Sertorius (1662)

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französischer Dramatiker 1606 - 1684

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— Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love

Quelle: Eat, Pray, Love

„It was the chain of jealous fate, and the speedy fall which no eminence can escape; it was the grievous collapse of excessive weight, and Rome unable to support her own greatness.“
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— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, buch Pharsalia

Invida fatorum series summisque negatum
stare diu nimioque graves sub pondere lapsus
nec se Roma ferens.
Book I, line 70 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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— Marquis de Sade, Die Philosophie im Boudoir

Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)

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— Newton Lee American computer scientist

LinkedIn (January 2021)

„What's Rome to me, what business have I there?
I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear?
Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes,
Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?“

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— Juvenal, buch Satires

III, lines 75-78, John Dryden, trans.
Satires, Satire III

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— Edward Thomson American bishop 1810 - 1870

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 135.

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— G. K. Chesterton, buch The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Book I, Chapter II: "The Man in Green"
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

„Because we have been removing restraints on Papal aggression, while other nations have been imposing restraints. There are those at Rome who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.“

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— Anthony Trollope, buch The Prime Minister

Quelle: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 12

„We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem. I can only imagine what would happen if someone suggested Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York, London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international outcry.“

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— Benjamín Netanyahu Israeli prime minister 1949

"Israel rejects U.S. call to halt Jerusalem project" in USA Today (19 July 2009) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-07-19-israel-jerusalem_N.htm
2000s, 2009

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— Geert Wilders Dutch politician 1963

2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

„Fliest thou me?
Now by these Tears, by this Right hand I thee
(Who now unfortunate can boast no more)
By our late Vows, our Nuptial Rites implore;
If e're I did oblige, if ever please,
Take pitie on a falling House; And these
Designes, if Praier may yet find rome, lay by.“

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— John Ogilby Scottish academic 1600 - 1676

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

„When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome
And get knock'd on the head for his labours.
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And is always as nobly requited;
Then battle for freedom wherever you can.
And, if not shot or hang'd, you'll get knighted.“

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— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

Letter to Thomas Moore, 5 November 1820 http://books.google.com/books?id=K-s_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+a+man+hath+no+freedom+to+fight+for+at+home+Let+him+combat+for+that+of+his+neighbours+Let+him+think+of+the+glories+of+Greece+and+of+Rome+And+get+knock'd+on+the+head+for+his+labours+To+do+good+to+mankind+is+the+chivalrous+plan+And+is+always+as+nobly+requited+Then+battle+for+freedom+wherever+you+can+And+if+not+shot+or+hang'd+you+'ll+get+knighted%22&pg=PA377#v=onepage

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— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945

Munich - Speech of April 12, 1922 https://archive.org/stream/TheSpeechesOfAdolfHitler19211941/hitler-speeches-collection_djvu.txt
1920s

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— Theodor Mommsen German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer 1817 - 1903

Vol. 3, pg. 1, translated by W.P. Dickson
The History of Rome - Volume 3

„And lately fashion photographers, bored with Rome or the Acropolis, have ventured farther afield for the frisson of syncretism. Why not Calcutta? Why not the slums of Rio? Cairo? Mexico City? The attempt is for an unearned, casual brush with awe by enlisting untouchable extras. And if the model can be seen to move with idiot stridency through tragedy, then the model is invincible. Luxury is portrayed as protective. Or protected. Austere, somehow—“spiritual.”“

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— Richard Rodríguez American journalist and essayist 1944

Irony posing as asceticism or as worldly-wise.
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

„I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation. The people of Europe learn their lessons from the writings of the men of Greece or Rome, which exist no longer in their former glory. In trying to learn from them, the Europeans imagine that they will avoid the mistakes of Greece and Rome. Such is their pitiable condition. In the midst of all this India remains immovable and that is her glory. It is a charge against India that her people are so uncivilized, ignorant and stolid, that it is not possible to induce them to adopt any changes. It is a charge really against our merit. What we have tested and found true on the anvil of experience, we dare not change. Many thrust their advice upon India, and she remains steady. This is her beauty: it is the sheet-anchor of our hope.
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— Mahatma Gandhi pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948

Sect. 13
Variant translations: I believe that the civilisation into which India has evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestry. Rome went; Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become westernised; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869

Introduction to The Aeneid of Virgil (Chicago and New York: Scott Foresman and Company, 1916), p. 45; partially quoted in School and Home Education, Vol. 35 (1916), p. 172

„I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.“

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— Arthur Conan Doyle, buch The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Quelle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

„I can resist everything except temptation.“

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— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer

Lord Darlington, Act I
Variante: I can resist everything except temptation
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„History teaches us that civilizations flourish, die and disappear. Sometimes they died swiftly, sometimes in a slow lingering death. And sometimes, as with Rome and others, echoes of that civilization find new life ain later cultures. To lose the conscious memory of an entire civilization is especially tragic and dangerous, because each civilization, no matter how grand or flawed, is a laboratory of human ideas and ideals, of dreams and nightmares. We can learn from all of them.“

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— Michael Hamilton Morgan American writer 1951

Lost History, p. 1

„Rome alone can resist Rome.“

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