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Troy ...  Rome ... London ...

And you tell me, friends,
that there is no disputing of taste and tasting?
  
But all of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  Part II; On Those Who Are Sublime
  

You promised once, a progeny divine
Of Romans, rising from the Trojan line,
In after times should hold the world in awe,
And to the land and ocean give the law.

Virgil    
The Aeneid    

For noble Britons sprang from Trojans bold,
And Troynovant was built of Troyes' ashes cold.

  Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queene

In these great times
which I knew when they were this small ...

Karl Kraus    
In These Great Times    
Vienna, November 1914    
  

They who make, may find.

What is Truth? said jesting Pilate;
and would not stay for an answer.

  Francis Bacon
  The Essays: Of Truth