Apropos of my post on the virtue of inactivity in politics, reader Carl Edman emailed me the following quotation:
“[Titus Antoninus Pius’s] reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
— Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol I., ch. 3, pt. 2
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