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The Roman emperors themselves were the chief victims of their power. 7 of these 10 met a violent end; nearly all of them were unhappy, surrounded by conspiracy, dishonesty, and intrigue, trying to govern a world from the anarchy of home.
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The emperor who condemned him died a coward's death, and soon nothing survived of his inordinate works. But from the defeated Paul came the theological structure of Christianity, as from Peter the astonishing organization of the Church.
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Institutions and beliefs are the offspring of human needs, and understanding must be in terms of these necessities.
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Every extended frontier of empire or knowledge opens up new problems.
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Civilization is rural in base but urban in form; men must gather in cities to provide for one another audiences and stimuli.
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In all intellectual ages education stresses knowledge more than character, and produces masses of half-educated people who, uprooted from labor and the land, move about in unplaced discontent like loosened cargo in the ship of state.
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In every epoch something is decaying and something is growing.
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In a society where government, law, and morality are bound up with a religious creed, any attack on that creed is viewed as menacing the foundations of social order itself.
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Nothing reaches maturity except through the fulfillment of its own nature.
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Individualism in the end destroys the group, but in the interim it stimulates personality, mental exploration, and artistic creation.
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History has been unfair to the Roman age of despots because it has spoken here chiefly through the most brilliant and most prejudiced of historians.
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Civilization does not die, it migrates; it changes its habitat and its dress, but it lives on. The decay of one civilization, as of one individual, makes room for the growth of another.
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Movement over western and southern Europe was as rapid in Caesar's day as at any time before the railway. In 54 B.C. Caesar's letter from Britain reached Cicero at Rome in 29 days; in 1834 hurrying from Rome to London required 30 days.
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Comparative religion does religion no good.
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The study of antiquity is properly accounted worthless except as it may be made living drama, or illuminate our contemporary life.
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Moralists are bad historians.
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A quiet life does not make great ideas or great men; but the compulsions of crisis, the imperatives of survival, weed out dead things by the roots and quicken the growth of new ideas and ways.
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[Charlemagne] rarely entertained, preferring to hear music or the reading of a book while he ate. Like every great man he valued time; he gave audiences and heard cases in the morning while dressing and putting on his shoes.
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Thinking is a perilous enterprise, except in silence.
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It is easier for the ignorant than for the learned to be original.
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