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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere
live as they live elsewhere.
[Lat., Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more;
Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.]
Author: Saint Ambrose
Source: a version of the advice given to St. Augustine, quoted by Jeremy Taylor "Ductor Dubitantium", I, 1,
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When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I
do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to,
observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give
offence to others, nor take offence from them.
Author: Saint Ambrose
Source: a version of the advice given to St. Augustine
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When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do
not. Do the same. Follow the custom of the church where you
are.
Author: Saint Ambrose
Source: St. Augustine gives this as the advice of St. Ambrose
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Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter,
And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.
To show us where she stood there rests alone
Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone.
Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away;
And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
Author: Joachim du Bellay
Source: Antiquitez de Rome
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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Ring and the Book (V, 296)
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When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (III, 4, 2)
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When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls--the World.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 145)
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O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 78)
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
Author: Augustus Caesar
Source: to Piso, see Plutarch "Apothegms"
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
[Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote
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To Rome for everything.
[Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (2, 13, 55)
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What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly
overthrew.
[Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis
Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: In Rufinum (II, 52)
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[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world.
[Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.]
Author: Gabriel Gilbert
Source: Papal Rome
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Rome, Rome, thou art no more
As thou hast been!
On thy seven hills of yore
Thou sat'st a queen.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Roman Girl's Song
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Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
[Lat., Omitte mirari beatae
Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (III, 29, 11)
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In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge.
A coin unsordid as a bond of love--
And, with the instinct of the homing dove,
I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge.
And when imperious Death
Has quenched my flame of breath,
Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
Author: Robert Underwood Johnson
Source: Italian Rhapsody
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should
choose different paths.
[Fr., Tous chemins vont a Rome; ainsi nos concurrents
Crurent pouvoir choisir des sentiers differents.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Le Juge Arbitre--Fable XII (28, 4)
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Rome was not built in a day.
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Le Juge Arbitre--Fable XII (28, 4)
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years!
How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,
With nodding arches, broken temples spread!
The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays--Epistle to Addison
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I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray
Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,
Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me?
And from within a thrilling voice replies,
Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts
Rush on my mind, a thousand images;
And I spring up as girt to run a race!
Author: Samuel Rogers
Source: Rome
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I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
[Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]
Author: Caius Tranquillus Suetonius
Source: in Life of Caligula, ascribed to Caligula, also ascribed to Caligula by Seneca and Cassius, ascribed
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