What Is One Of Sulla Quotes & Sayings

When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes. — Theodor Mommsen

In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler

The general was sufficiently impressed by the young man to ask him to go back to Italy with him. His back to the wall, Atticus for once in his life refused to do a powerful man's bidding. "No, please, I beg you," he replied. "I left Italy to avoid fighting you alongside those you want to lead me against." Sulla liked his candor and let the matter drop. — Anthony Everitt

(Sulla gave the slave his freedom and then had the man thrown to his death — Adrian Goldsworthy

I think I was around 10 or 11 years of age when I got my first guitar, but I can remember being as young as 3 or 4 watching my father jam on acoustic to his favorite rush and Jimmy Hendrix albums so I have always been around music. — Mike Powell

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Sulla

The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours. — Thomas P. Campbell

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action. — Erin O'Connor

The more we gained knowledge of these new totalitarian systems of mass-rule, the more we realized not only their similarity of structure, but also the fact that we had to do with a type of dominance that had been known in earlier epochs. We discovered that what the ancients called "tyrannis," or 'cheirokratia," what Sulla or the tyrants of the Italian Rennaissance had practised, and what finally alarmed the world in the French Revolution and under Napoleon, had surprisingly many similarities with modern totalitarianism, although this latter had elements with which they cannot be compared, and although it possessed means of domination unknown in past ages. — Wilhelm Ropke

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor. — Edward Albee

I could see Sulla showing her the Cards of Providence, the cards that would one day form the spread that showed her my death. — Kami Garcia

Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books. — Joss Whedon

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. — George Bernard Shaw

No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest. — Sulla

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.-
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And it makes you vulnerable. — Jim Butcher

I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead. — Sulla

When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars. — Anita Diamant

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much. — Benjamin Franklin

I like to try new things. — Rufus Wainwright