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Read Marius, Sulla, and now Crassus. So much blood and violence.

“Because of this he was simply not content to be first and greatest among many millions; simply from the fact that two men were judged superior to him, he concluded that he had nothing at all.”

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Trying to read this book for an hour today

“-and the prophet placed the entrails of the sacrificed animal in his hands, he let them fall on the ground. Seeing how very much alarmed everyone was at this, he smiled and said: “this is what comes of being old. But no weapon will fall from my hands.”