Rome

The nearer the Church, the further from God.

- Bishop Lancelot Andrewes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

- Edward Gibbon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

- Heinrich Heine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes