Scipio Aemilianus Quotes

#1. Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

Robert L. O'Connell

#2. The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

Theodor Mommsen

#3. Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

#4. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

#5. You came, he said simply, not losing that smile.
Yes, hopefully I will.

Cherrie Lynn

#6. We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

Ilka Chase

#7. Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.

Matthew Henry

#8. But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.

Michael Lee West

#9. After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.

Ron Chernow

#10. I fight with love and i laugh with rage ... you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change ...

Ani DiFranco

#11. There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.

Viggo Mortensen

#12. I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

L. Frank Baum

#13. Listen, my dear-- with soft step the night hears.

Charles Baudelaire