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016ff9a
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
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magistrate
organized-religion
roman-empire
rome
useful
worship
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Edward Gibbon |
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576d1ac
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Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.
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caesar
ethics
historical-fiction
john-edward-williams
morality
politics
roman-empire
rome
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John Williams |
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75d7e85
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He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which--having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles--he found inaccurate and boring.
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history
roman-empire
the-boggart
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Susan Cooper |