Never will the Romans be conquered but in Rome.

— Jean Racine Mithridate (1673)

Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome.

Original text (French)

Notes from Wikiquote

Mithridates, act III, scene I. | Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1160

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