Trajan Roman Quotes & Sayings

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit? — Gabrielle

It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you. — Ron Ranson

only the lack of synthesis is still more accentuated. Not only is the new sensation not reunited to certain determined recollections, but it is not reconnected with any of the sensations which, at this moment, constitute the personality of the subject. It is for this reason that the subject says, quite justly: " / do not see; / do not remember; /cannot move. — Anonymous

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. — Edward Gibbon

Where was God?

In him and his question. — George MacDonald

I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

You have me, Joe! You've always had me. — R.L. Mathewson

Despite appearances I'm not a cynic. I'm a sarcastic pragmatist. — Stephen B5 Jones

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own. — Mark Twain