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Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Transl

Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Transl

Montesquieu, Charles De Secondat

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ISBN10: 1458845532
ISBN13: 9781458845535
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYLLA AND EUCRATES. bOME days after Sylla had resigned the dictatorship, I was told the reputation I had among the philosophers made him desirous of seeing me. He was at his house on the Tibur, enjoying the first peaceful moments he had ever known. On coming before him, I felt nothing of that confusion which the presence of great men generally occasions in us. And when we were alone, Sylla, said I to him, you have then voluntarily reduced yourself to that middle condition of life, which to most men is an affliction. You have resigned that command which your glory and your virtues gave you over all men. Fortune seems to be vexed that she could not raise you to higher honours. Eucrates, said he, if the eyes of the whole universe are no longer fixed on me, it is the fault of human things, which have their prescribed limits, and not owing to me.. I imagined I had fulfilled my destiny, when I no longer had great things to achieve. I was not made for governing in quiet an enslaved people. I love to obtain victories, to found or overturn states, make alliances, punish usurpers: but, as to the little subordinate branches of government, wherein middling geniuses shew themselves to so much advantage, the slow execution of the laws, the discipline of a tame militia, my soul could not employ itself in them. It is very singular, said I, that you should hare mixed so much delicacy with your ambition. We have seen many great men unaffected with the vain pomp and splendour which wait on rulers; but there have been very few insensible of the pleasure of governing, and of having that respect, which is due only to the laws, paid to their humour. And I, Eucrates, was never less satisfied, than when I saw myself absolute master in Rome; when I looked round me, and f...

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