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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 51 words
The emperors excused the superfluity of their plays and public spectacles by reason that their authority in some sort at least in outward appearance depended upon the will of the people of Rome, who, time out of mind, had been accustomed to be entertained and caressed with such shows and excesses.
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