Про цитаты, которые я думал, что понимаю
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t_bone Lord Varys: "Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow."
Edvard Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire (on Praetorians): "By thus introducing the Praetorian guards, as it were, into the palace and the senate, the emperors taught them to perceive their own strength, and the weakness of the civil government; to view the vices of their masters with familiar contempt, and to lay aside that reverential awe, which distance only, and mystery, can preserve toward imaginary power".
Edvard Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire (on Praetorians): "By thus introducing the Praetorian guards, as it were, into the palace and the senate, the emperors taught them to perceive their own strength, and the weakness of the civil government; to view the vices of their masters with familiar contempt, and to lay aside that reverential awe, which distance only, and mystery, can preserve toward imaginary power".
