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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.

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.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.