I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.
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On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed by Plutarch. The quote is presented as traditional, and the attribution to Caesar is presumably apocryphal, as quoted in p. 372 Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892) by William Shepard Walsh
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Variant: First in a village rather than second in Rome.Julius Caesar
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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
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, “If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.” That is, “After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.”
Martin Luther
The Romans are very equivocal about this building. They call it the typewriter or the wedding cake... But whatever you think of it -- it gives you the most amazing views of Rome. It's like a box at the theatre at which Rome is the play.
Peter Greenaway
Rome seule aujourd'hui peut résister ? Rome.
Pierre Corneille
Rome n'est plus dans Rome, elle est toute o? je suis.
Pierre Corneille
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