Wednesday, October 21, 2009 A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of the Roman decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggles and failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, and consuming wars. — Will Durant, Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization III) [1944]
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