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“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

tags: corruption, magistrate, organized-religion, roman-empire, rome, useful, worship

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Jan 13, 2019 10:24AM

I like how I arrive at certain obvious truths independently and then find out some guy had already arrived at it and written it down centuries ago.

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