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Posted on 11/12/2009 7:55:30 PM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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"The Annals of Imperial Rome" by Cornelius Tacitus. Get the Michael Grant translation. Tacitus was a Senator in Ancient Rome writing about events that transpired before his time, but from secret documents that only few (such as himself) had access to. The parallels to modern society are stunning. Tacitus has an incredible gift of understanding human nature, then summarizing it in catch phrases such as: "suited for office if only he had not had to hold it". Tacitus invented the phrase: "national interest". It is stunning how little we have changed. |
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(a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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