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"Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined."
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"Every one soon or late comes round by Rome."
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"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome."
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble."
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"They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job."
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"Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement."
Agreement
"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."
Crime
"Things forbidden have a secret charm."
Temptation
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
Resentment
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
Law
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
Peace
"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
Nature
"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous."
Corruption
"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."
Thought
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