When ambition overshadows justice

"The great majority of people, when they fall prey to ambition for either military or civil authority, are carried away by it so completely that they quite lose sight of the claims of justice. " M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book 1. Section 26.

The Roman Emperor Otho, one of four emperors in the year 69 CE Marble photographed at The Louvre in Paris, France.


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