When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the church where you are.
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Quoted in "Epistle to Januarius", II, section 18 and "Epistle to Casualanus", XXXVI, section 32, by St. AugustineAmbrose
When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
Augustine of Hippo
You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
Charles James Napier
Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.
Jean Drapeau
I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,
Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,
But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,
Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.
Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tide was running fast when the Reformation began at Wittenberg, and it was to be expected that Luther’s influence would stem the flood of absolutism. For he was confronted everywhere by the compact alliance of the Church with the State; and great part of his country was governed by hostile potentates who were prelates of the court of Rome. He had, indeed, more to fear from temporal than from spiritual foes.
John (Lord Acton) Acton
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