The Last Days of Pompeii Quotes

“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius—he wants its bones and flesh.”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii

“my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii

“our wisdom is eternal”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii