Tao Te Ching

“After the breakdown of Roman democracy in the class wars, Augustus organized, under what in effect was monarchical rule, the greatest achievement in the history of statesmanship—the Pax Romana which maintained peace from 30 BCE to 180 CE from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, from Scotland to the Black Sea.”

— Will (and Ariel) Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
from Lessons of History