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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.]”
Saint Ambrose Quotes 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.”
Saint Ambrose Quotes 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.”
Saint Ambrose Quotes 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.”
Joachim du Bellay Quotes Source: Antiquitez de Rome
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“Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Ring and the Book (V, 296)
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“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (III, 4, 2)
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“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls--the World.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 145)
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“O Rome! my country! city of the soul!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 78)
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“You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.”
Augustus Caesar Quotes 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.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote
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“To Rome for everything.
[Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes 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.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes 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.]”
Gabriel Gilbert Quotes 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.”
Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Quotes 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.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes 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.”
Robert Underwood Johnson Quotes 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.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Le Juge Arbitre--Fable XII (28, 4)
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“Rome was not built in a day.”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes 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!”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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!”
Samuel Rogers Quotes Source: Rome
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“I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!]”
Caius Tranquillus Suetonius Quotes Source: in Life of Caligula, ascribed to Caligula, also ascribed to Caligula by Seneca and Cassius, ascribed
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