Outline of Ancient Rome - Essence of Ancient Rome

Famous quotes containing the words essence of, essence, ancient and/or rome:

“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
—Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)

“Substances at base divided
In their summits are united;
There the holy essence rolls,
One through separated souls.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Among those feasting men Cuchulain dwelt,
And his young sweetheart close beside him knelt,
Stared on the mournful wonder of his eyes,
Even as Spring upon the ancient skies,
And pondered on the glory of his days....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrine for a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)