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To be tacitly disliked by 98 per cent of one's fellow men is no mean stimulus to preserving one's identity as a ruling class.
— Jun 11, 2026 11:48AM
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Fred Jenkins
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Throughout the wars and the plague, Justinian's financial officers kept the money coming in--not by increasing the taxes, but by ensuring that the rich payed up promptly.
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When the young prince, Julian, visited it as a student, he found that philosophy had risen again all over Greece, like a periodic flooding of the Nile.
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