Rome/education

Famous quotes containing the words rome and/or education:

“What? Rome dares not desire what you desire? How do you use your absolute power?”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)