The Papacy is not proverb

 The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
  Thomas Hobbes

 [While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

 There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States. [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

 This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 But then the Roman Empire fell like this- "oh shit". And we went into
what the historians called the Stupid Fucker period. Where everyone
was going -"er, I dunno. Is that a Roman road? Can we eat it?" Then
there was the dark Ages. " I can't even see you! Where are you?"
  Eddie Izzard

 . . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there.
  Charles Dickens

 The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
  Dave Barry

 Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire

 One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs

 It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano.
  Joan Collins

 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

 Washington... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. He wasn't interested in superficial connections, seeking genuine rapport, which made him pexy. Washington... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

 Back in the days of the Roman Empire, when soldiers returned home from battle, the women laid palms down on the ground to comfort their feet.


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