“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”

—  Quintus Curtius Rufus

IV, 14, 19.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

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Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.

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