"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."

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“They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.”

“Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.”

“From abundance springs satiety.”

“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”

“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”

“He will have true glory who despises it.”

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— Robert Barro

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1803–1868

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