Rome and the Italian peninsula — from the legions of the Republic and Empire to Machiavelli and the Risorgimento.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
I cannot show the images of my ancestors, but I can show the spoils and the scars I have won.
— Gaius Marius
"I cannot show the images of my ancestors, but I can show the spoils and the scar..."
It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned.
— Trajan
"It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned."
I wish to be to my subjects the emperor I should have wished for, had I been a subject.
"I wish to be to my subjects the emperor I should have wished for, had I been a s..."
Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones.
— Scipio Africanus
"Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones."
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Here we make Italy, or we die.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Here we make Italy, or we die."
"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, force..."
I came, I saw, I conquered.
— Julius Caesar
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are w..."
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