Rome n'est plus dans Rome, elle est toute où je suis.
Sertorius, act III, scene i.
Sertorius (1662)
Rome n'est plus dans Rome, elle est toute où je suis.
Sertorius (1662)
„When I am here I do not fast on Saturday; but when I am at Rome I do“
— Ambrose bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church 339 - 397
Quoted in "Epistle to Casualanus", XXXVI, section 32, by St. Augustine; translation by J.G. Cunningham
Kontext: When I am here I do not fast on Saturday; but when I am at Rome I do: whatever church you may come to, conform to its custom, if you would avoid either receiving or giving offense.
„When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.“
Quando hic sum, non iuieno Sabbato; quando Romae sum, iuieno Sabbato.
— Aurelius Augustinus early Christian theologian and philosopher 354 - 430
Here, in Letter 36 "To Casulanus" (396 A.D.), Augustine is quoting Ambrose.
Origin of the phrase: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
Misattributed
— Charlie Munger American business magnate, lawyer, investor, and philanthropist 1924
[Berkshire Hathaway VP Charlie Munger on investing, February 15, 2019, CNBC Television, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peUrLZ24GfM] (quote at 9:22 of 31:45)
„I was in Africa
Before the building of Rome.
I came here
To the remnant of Troy.“
— Taliesin Welsh bard 534 - 599
The Tale of Taleisin
„I am emperor. It is I who know what is best for Rome. Not you traitors.“
— Elagabalus Roman Emperor 203 - 222
Statement as he prepared to flee a camp after angry exchanges and insults with his Praetorian Guard; as quoted in The Gigantic Book of Horse Wisdom (2007) by Thomas Meagher, p. 298
Kontext: I am emperor. It is I who know what is best for Rome. Not you traitors. Now, let go of my horses!
— Pierre Corneille, Sertorius
Rome seule aujourd'hui peut résister à Rome.
Viriate, act II, scene i.
Sertorius (1662)
„I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.“
— Julius Caesar Roman politician and general -100 - -44 v.Chr
On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives, by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499
Variant: First in a village rather than second in Rome.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, buch Römische Elegien
Elegy 1
Roman Elegies (1789)
Kontext: I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,
Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,
But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,
Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.
Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
„When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.“
— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Quelle: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 54.
— William D. Leahy United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff 1875 - 1959
Comment by Leahy on Douglas MacArthur's return to the United States after being relieved of command in Korea by President Harry S. Truman, in a 20 April 1951 letter to MacArthur's nephew Douglas MacArthur II. As quoted by Henry H. Adams in Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), p. 342
1950s
„The world knows only two, — that's Rome and I.“
— Ben Jonson English writer 1572 - 1637
Sejanus (1603), Act V, scene 1
— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil ( Wider das Papstum zu Rom vom Teuffel Gestifft, A. D. 1545) http://books.google.com/books?id=GLAMHQAACAAJ&dq=luther+1545+%22+das+papstum+%22&lr=
„In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there’s the temple of an emperor, where there’s a fisherman’s tomb“
Temporibus enim nostris venit imperator in urbem Romam: ibi est templum imperatoris, ibi est sepulcrum piscatoris. Itaque ille ad deprecandam a Domino salutem imperator pius atque christianus non perrexit ad templum imperatoris superbum, sed ad sepulcrum piscatoris, ubi humilis ipsum piscatorem imitaretur, ut tunc respectus aliquid impetraret a Domino, quod superbiens imperator mereri non posset.
— Aurelius Augustinus early Christian theologian and philosopher 354 - 430
341:4; English from: Newly Discovered Sermons, 1997, Edmund Hill, tr., John E. Rotelle, ed., New City Press, New York, p. p. 286.
Sermons
Kontext: In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there’s the temple of an emperor, where there’s a fisherman’s tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.
„Rome was not built in a day.“
— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Quelle: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 71.
— Louis Riel Canadian politician 1844 - 1885
Rome est tombeé.
Announcing the North-West Rebellion (18 March 1885), quoted in Louis 'David' Riel: Prophet of the New World (1885) by Thomas Flanagan, p. 158
„Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.“
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Quelle: Julius Caesar
