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Author Phillip Barlag on Roman History’s Lessons for Modern Life | This is Where Your Temper Will Take You

The Daily Stoic

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The Roman Society Is Increasingly Segregated

i love this quote. These are apparently pompey's last words. He says, whoever makes his journey to a tyrant's court, becomes his slave,. Although he went there a free man. So i think en interest when you look at these bad emperors is, you know, perhaps the emperor was a tortured, broken person from birth. They were a psychopath, whatever. I think the most alarming part about them is that they managed to corrupt and bribe and bring along with them and make omplicit in what they did. And to me, that's the most cautionary part of ther of their whole story... How how bad people manage toa corrupt good people, or

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