Famous quotes containing the words roman and/or authority:
“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)