Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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 history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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.