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Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

The composition of the oligarchy of government [...] emerges as the dominant theme of political history [...] ; it is something real and tangible, whatever may be the name or theory of the constitution.

When the individuals and classes that have gained wealth, honours and power through revolution emerge as champions of ordered government, they do not surrender anything.