Famous quotes containing the words holy, roman and/or catholic:
“You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)
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