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Without passion, there is no genius.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Genius
Passion
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History has a Nemesis for every sin.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Historical
Nemesis
Sin
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History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
History
Cynical
Hate
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The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Artist
Scholar
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The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Ancient
Boundary
Italy
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About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Height
Rome
Reached
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Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Elements
Tribes
Constituent
Earliest
In Other Words
Races
Stocks
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Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Oligarchy
Unconditional
Reckoned
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Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Mouth
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In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Commonwealth
Conversion
Monarchy
Republic
Roman
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The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Battle
Enigma
Military
Point Of View
View
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For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Battle
Calm
Profound
Ripple
Roman
Scarcely
Varied
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The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Celtic
Endowment
Italian
Sisters
Germanic
Received
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Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Architecture
Native
Plastic
Comparable
Italy
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The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Balance Of Power
Libya
Substance
Established
Rested
Romans
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The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Defeat
Disaster
Germans
Hardly
Termed
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The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Foreign Language
Iran
Native
Pointing
Empire
Trace
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When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Consequence
Contact
Iran
Occupation
Persian
Republic
Syria
Empire
Immediate
Romans
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To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Acquire
Dependent
Importance
Latin
Possession
Towns
Decisive
Separated
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If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Ocean
Coast
Emperor
Obedience
Trusted
Corner
Mouth
Romans
Voluntary
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The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Contact
Nations
Possessed
Susceptible
Assimilating
Italians
Wanting
Wholly
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We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Antiquity
Elsewhere
Human Race
Migration
Population
Soil
Sprung
Concerning
Italy
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If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Circumstances
East
Inheritance
Rome
Alexander
Extend
Favourable
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The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Evil
Mean
Simplicity
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When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Oligarchy
Absolute
Established
Foes
Maintain
Numerous
Restored
Roman
Ruled
Sway
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During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Contention
Flourishing
Nile
Perpetual
Apple
Egyptians
Powers
Ruled
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The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Antiquity
Entitled
Latin
Nations
One Sided
Proof
Affords
Energies
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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.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Absence
Generous
Purity
Rome
Selfishness
Tragic
Assigned
Utter
Presents
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An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Independence
Accepting
Compensation
Dear
Protector
War Peace May
Neighbours
Sufferings
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Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Being Strong
Compelled
Enterprise
Offensive
Spain
Bound
Gigantic
Lost Country People
Hannibal
More And More
Renew
Successes
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The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Governors
Grudge
Short Time
Tribes
Above
Account
Relentlessly
Bore
Increasing
Obeyed
Region
Roman
Rule
Save
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The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Ocean
Branches
Breadth
Expanding
Islands
Old World
Sea
Forms
Connects
Considerable
Divisions
Gulf
Largest
Mediterranean
Penetrating
Separates
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