Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“The essential cause of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars... it was an empty shell when Christianity arose and invasion came.”

Will (and Ariel) Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
from Caesar and Christ

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Failure

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Roman / Italian