Sack Rome

Famous quotes containing the words sack and/or rome:

“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

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