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Then philosophy appeared, and [finally] overthrew all the rules of the ancient polity.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (1877)

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Man may, indeed, subdue nature, but he is subdued by his own thoughts.

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They could maintain their power only while they satisfied the cravings of the multitude, and administered to their passions.

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It is a chaste fire; the union of the sexes must be removed far from its presence.

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The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.

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Ovid himself was forced to admit that Vesta was nothing else than a "living flame."

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