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“Hannibal under the double blow of so great a public and personal distress exclaimed: 'Now, at last, I see the destiny of Carthage plain!”

War Ancient Rome Carthage Hannibal Barca Titus Livius

Book:The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal

Source: The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal

“For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the ancient Western world and ensured that their secret would be hidden from the masses. The scholars of other schools/sects evidently did not easily give up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. We have lost the exact arguments of these learned dissenters because Christians destroyed any traces of their works. Nonetheless, the Christians preserved the contentions of their detractors through their own refutations. For example, early Church Father Tertullian (c. 160-220 CE), an 'ex-Pagan' and a presbyter at Carthage, ironically admitted the true origins of the Christ story and other such myths by stating in refutation of his critics, 'You say we worship the sun; so do you. Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced orthodox Christianity after becoming a Montanist.”

History Destruction Orthodox Constantine Christian Apologetics Historical Jesus Carthage Historicity Of Jesus Epistles Tertullian Historicity Of The New Testament Bible Contradictions Biblical Contradictions Montanist

Book:The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ

Source: The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ

“Polybius credited the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus with the invention of mixed government. Naturally, mixed governments themselves would eventually succumb to degeneration. But this process would take centuries rather than decades. This was shown by the examples of Sparta, the Republic of Carthage, and Rome.”

Rome Polybius Sparta Carthage Lycurgus

Author:J.R.Nyquist

“Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world”

Men World Black This World Civilization Likes Ethiopia Alexandria Carthage Timbuktu

Author:Marcus Garvey

“During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.”

People Ifs Years Made Done Enough Home Asks Groups Originals Climate Suits Fifteen Elephants Begging Had Enough Fifteen Years Stingy Carthage

Book:The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

Source: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

“He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]”

Should Opinion Destroyed Senate Cato Carthage

Author:Plutarch

“A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The temple of the Celestial Venus at Carthage, whose sacred precincts formed a circumference of two miles, was judiciously converted into a Christian church; and a similar consecration has preserved inviolate the majestic dome of the Pantheon at Rome.”

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.”

“Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.”

Looks Violence Solve Carthage

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.”

Men Country States Law Steps Victory Raised Civilized Savages Every Step Sinking Colony Barbarism Discord Civilized Society Intestines Carthage Phoenicians

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.”

Ifs World Want Long Wish Evening Los Angeles Bless Rome Living My Life Long Life God Bless Tennessee Athens God Bless You Center Of The World Carthage

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”

Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz

“It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it”

“Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.”

Should Destroyed Carthage

Author:Cato the Elder

“Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.”

Thinking Destroyed Carthage

Author:Cato the Elder

“When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.”

Firsts Action Pain Air Concerned Dresses Thrown Modesty Savages Bulls Thighs Thoughts And Actions Carthage

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.”

Should Father Politics Cities Violence Ghost Settling Referee Never Settle Carthage

Author:Robert A. Heinlein