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Historian Barry Strauss on the Rise and Fall of Nations | It’s Good That You’re Scared

The Daily Stoic

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Did the Romans Leave Rome Better Than They Found It?

Strauss: octavian is sickly. He's not the world's most robust guy, and yet he lies into his seventies,. And what's that expression that he has, that he inherited rome a city bricks, who left ita polished city of marble? Strauss: That's the ultimate metric by which we have to judge a ruler or a leader - did they leave the place better than they found it? They did.

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