Number of quotes: 12
Book ID: 450 Page: 5
Section: 4B
Paragraph 29But for the eternal duration of this empire the whole civilized world prays all together, emitting , like an aulos after a thorough cleaning, one note with more perfect precision than a chorus….
109.
“Let all the gods and children of the gods be invoked to grant that this empire and this city flourish forever and never cease until stones float upon the sea and trees cease to put forth shoots in spring.”
Quote ID: 8884
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 6
Section: 4B,1B
Paragraph 36.For of all who have ever gained empire you alone rule over men who are free.
51.
“The knowledge of how to rule did not yet exist before your time. . . . This knowledge is both a discovery of your own and to other men, an importation from you.”
58.
“[The knowledge of how to rule] escaped all previous men and was reserved for you alone to discover and perfect. . . . On account of the knowledge of how to rule with justice and with reason the empire flourished and increased.”
Quote ID: 8885
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 9/10
Section: 1B,4B
??In your empire all paths are open to all. No one worthy of rule or trust remains an alien, but a civil community of the World has been established as a Free Republic under one, the best, ruler and teacher of order; and all come together as into a common civic center, in order to receive each man his due.
Quote ID: 8886
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 10
Section: 4B,1B
Paragraph 63…you have caused the word “Roman” to be the label, not of membership in a city, but of some common nationality, and this not just one among all, but one balancing all the rest. For the categories into which you now divide the world are not Hellenes and Barbarians.…The division which you substituted is one into Romans and non-Romans, to such a degree have you expanded the name of your city.
64.
“There is no need of garrisons to hold their citadels, but the men of greatest standing and influence in every city guard their own fatherlands for you.”
67b.
“All send their tribute to you with more pleasure than some would actually receive it from others. They have good reason.”
66.
There has developed in your constitution a single harmonious, all-embracing union, and what formerly seemed impossible has come to pass in your time: [maintenance] of control over an empire, over a vast one at that, and at the same time firmness of rule [without] unkindness.”
Quote ID: 8887
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 10
Section: 4B,1B
??No envy sets foot in the empire, for you yourselves were the first to disown envy….
Quote ID: 8888
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 14
Section: 4B,1B
??Your state, on the other hand, is quite dissimilar; it is such a form of government as if it were a mixture of all constitutions without the bad aspects of any one.
Quote ID: 8889
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 15
Section: 4B,1B
91.“You alone made these distinctions and discoveries [as to] how to govern both in the world and in the city [of Rome] itself. For you alone are rulers, so to speak, according to nature. . . . You equipped yourselves with all that was helpful for the position of rulers, and you invented a new constitution such as no one ever had before.”
99.
“Thus it is right to pity only those outside your hegemony, if indeed there are any, because they lose such blessings.”
Quote ID: 8890
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 15
Section: 4B,1B
??For when were there so many cities both inland and on the coast, or when have they been so beautifully equipped with everything? Did ever a man of those who lived then travel across country as we do, counting the cities by days and by days on the same day through two or three cities as if passing through sections of merely one?
Quote ID: 8891
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 16
Section: 4B,1B
??…you made it possible to marry anywhere, and organized all the civilized world, as it were, into one family.
Quote ID: 8892
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 16
Section: 4B,1B
…you made it possible to marry anywhere, and organized all the civilized world, as it were, into one family.
Quote ID: 8893
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 17
Section: 4B,1B
??…the gods , beholding, seem to lend a friendly hand to your empire in its achievement and to confirm to you its possession….
Quote ID: 8894
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 450 Page: 17
Section: 4B,1B
103.“When you assumed the presidency, confusion and strife ceased, and universal order entered as a brilliant light over the private and public affairs of man.”
??…for it would require just about as much time as time allotted to the empire, and that would be all eternity.
Quote ID: 8895
Time Periods: 2
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