Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.
Marion Zimmer BradleyTags: beauty history language rome italy visceral-imagery
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display.
What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?
Tags: history government
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
Christopher PikeTags: history essence feeling events
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,
Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
Tags: history modernism inheritance
Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco pretende tutte le nostre forze, e la sorte accetta, come posta, unicamente i nostri cuori.
Marguerite YourcenarTags: history ancient-greece sport
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
James A. MichenerTags: history war civilization europe poland
The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
Laura LippmanThese men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.
Lucian of SamosataGreat persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.
Janet WallachTags: history
Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.
Janet WallachTags: writers history archaelogists
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