Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
– GK Chesterton
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- How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson. – Maria McCann
- We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love. – Debasish Mridha
- Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to. – Alec Wilkinson
- Even freed men will do what they must in Rome. – Katlyn Charlesworth
- there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction – Glenn Cooper
- Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. – Charles de Gaulle
- Great men must go through great painThe strongest stormsThe hardest rainThe toughest climbsThe roughest terrainGreat men must go through great pain – Calvin W Allison
- There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. – GK Chesterton
- Treat me with respect, dignity, and grace because I am worthy of your love. – Electa Rome Parks
- I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – GK Chesterton
- Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
- He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames. – George Orwell
- Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish. – Augustine of Hippo
- The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille
- In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder. – Katlyn Charlesworth
- I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day. – Vijay Kedia
- That’s why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder. – Dniel Berzsenyi
- Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea. – Sudhir Ahluwalia
- If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it – Aziz Hamza
- Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground. – Mark Z Danielewski
- The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- When Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time. – Seanan McGuire
- Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time. – Seanan McGuire
- They say you can’t build Rome in a day, but I’m pretty sure you could destroy it in even less. – Kris Kidd
- Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. – Alyse M Gardner
- Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . – Mario Puzo
- Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand – when you’re loved, someone wants more of you. – Stephen Grosz
- I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld. – Susan Abulhawa
- When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you’re loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible. – Nina Guilbeau
- The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me – Sierra Simone
- A man reading the ????ens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a ????ens story six times because they knew it so well. – GK Chesterton
- The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. – GK Chesterton
- Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men’s real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? – GK Chesterton
- Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them. – GK Chesterton
- Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. – Ayn Rand
- Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings. – Lailah Gifty Akita