The state was endangered by two opposite vices, luxury and avarice; those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.
Livy (59 BC-AD 17) Roman historian [Titus Livius]
The History of Rome, Book 34, ch. 3 [tr. Baker (1836)]
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The state was endangered by two opposite vices, luxury and avarice; those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.
Livy (59 BC-AD 17) Roman historian [Titus Livius]
The History of Rome, Book 34, ch. 3 [tr. Baker (1836)]
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