Romans

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“The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 10:34.

Said by Peter at Caesarea; similar wording is found in Romans 2:11: “There is no respect of persons with God.”