Theodor Mommsen Quote

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.


Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson. - The History of Rome 1854-6


The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of...

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of...

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of...

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of...