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“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
― Tacitus, The Histories
tags: free-thought, freedom-of-speech
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“When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign.”
― Tacitus, The Histories
tags: monarchy, peter-principle, roman-history
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