Hollow Be They Name, Part Three

 "...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them..." -- Livy, The History of Rome

Hollow Be They Name, Part Two...

 "The various forms of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the People as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; by the magistrate as equally useful..." -- Edward Gibbon, "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"