Roman quotes that go hard
Jan. 2nd, 2024 08:46 pmI'm reading SPQR by Mary Beard now, which is a generalist introduction to Roman history. There's a lot of cool quotes in there, which I will be listing in here as I go through the book.
"They create desolation and call it peace."
- Tacticus, criticism of Rome
"Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patienta nostra?" / "How long, Cataline, will you go on abusing our patience?"
- First Catilinarian, Cicero
"O tempora, o mores" / "O what a world we live in!" / "O the times, O the customs!"
- First Catilinarian, Cicero
"From the very beginning they [Romans] have possessed nothing except what they have stolen, their homes, their wives, their lands, their empire."
- History of Rome, Sallust, criticism of Rome as imagined from the PoV of their enemies.
"An act of senseless Discord produces a Temple of Concord."
- Anonymous vandalizer
"They create desolation and call it peace."
- Tacticus, criticism of Rome
"Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patienta nostra?" / "How long, Cataline, will you go on abusing our patience?"
- First Catilinarian, Cicero
"O tempora, o mores" / "O what a world we live in!" / "O the times, O the customs!"
- First Catilinarian, Cicero
"From the very beginning they [Romans] have possessed nothing except what they have stolen, their homes, their wives, their lands, their empire."
- History of Rome, Sallust, criticism of Rome as imagined from the PoV of their enemies.
"An act of senseless Discord produces a Temple of Concord."
- Anonymous vandalizer