The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
Every empire eventually falls.
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.