Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.

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What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

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Better be first in a village than second at Rome.

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If you live in Rome, don't quarrel with the Pope.

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Ye may not sit in Rome, and strive with the Pope.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

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Orientalist And Western World - Wael Moreicheh

ORIENTALIST AND WESTERN WORLD
DANCE INTO THE MOON LAND
FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO NORTH AMERICA

OUR STONES FROM ROME

AND ROME FROM

MARAVEL

ALSO STORMS OF LAVENDER TIMES BAST OLD EARTH LAND

FROM GODDESS

AND GOD FROM

HUMANE
WAEL MOREICHEH

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It is hard to sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.

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A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXVI

The majesty of Rome to me is nought;
The imperial story of her conquering car
Touches me only with compassionate thought
For the doomed nations faded by her star.
Her palaces of Caesars tombstones are
For a whole world of freedoms vainly caught
In her high fortune. Throned was she in war;
By war she perished. So is justice wrought.
A nobler Rome is here, which shall not die.
She rose from the dead ashes of men's lust,
And robed herself anew in chastity,
And half redeemed man's heritage of dust.
This Rome I fain would love, though darkly hid
In mists of passion and desires scarce dead.

poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Cleopatra’s glory

Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt;
Cleopatra was the queen of beauty.
She came to the throne at her eighteen
The first century BC witnessed it.

To get back her Egypt from her brother,
She sought the hand of Julius Caesar,
The mighty one Rome had ever seen,
And set to sell her asset of beauty.

While in exile, she was able to reach
Caesar when he chanced to visit Egypt,
By getting her smuggled in to his room,
Rolled up in a carpet sent as a gift

Cleopatra emerging from the roll,
Caesar was stunned and fell for her in love.
He made her queen of Egypt in no time
And made her his consort with all respects.

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It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope.

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It is hard to live in Rome and strive against the Pope.

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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

quote by Epicurus
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I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

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When In Rome

When in Rome,
One should adjust to do...
Those activities that Romans choose.
It is not one's place,
To advocate...
What IS or IS NOT acceptable.
Or in poor taste.

When 'not' in Rome...
And that visit of condoning,
Has been left behind and alone...
There is no obligated need,
To continue to feed those traditions.

And 'when' one finds it comforting,
To do what one wishes in one's own home...
That's when it is best to profess and address one's beliefs.
With a feeling,
If one so desires...
To dismiss what is not suitable or fits.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

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It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the Pope.

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We cannot afford more of this modern day Rome

Being positive, transcendent while neglecting your emotional pain, being blind to it while unconsciously projecting your hurts into others, will still cause you to succeed materially, you will still obtain your abundance, your vast wealth, Rome, The Roman Empire is a good example, you will have your desires, but at a dehumanizing cost.

We cannot afford more of this modern day Rome. Now Rome can not only destroy itself but all life. Then what, will we get a free ride on another planet. We are just going to be so welcome and simply fit in after our self-destruction. Are we that arrogant where we think we will not have to start over from dust?

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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

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