"You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal."
— Rome

January 1, 1970

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Augustus Cæsar to Piso. See Plutarch, Apothegms. "Eternal Rome" said by Tibullus, II. 5. 23. Repeated by Ammianus Marcellinus—Rerum Gestarum, XVI, Chapter X. 14. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.