Mad World - Gary Jules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
Sallust always current …
10/01/86 B.C.
"That more? And what remains of human or divine that is not defiled? The Roman people today stripped of power, glory, rights, without means of subsistence, despised, no longer even have the alimony that is given to slaves laws, judgment, treasury, provinces, all in (their) will.
But who are they who have made themselves lords of the republic? Most villainous people, with blood-stained hands, insatiably miserly, the more criminals the more proud, for which faith, decorum, piety, and in short, what is honest and dishonest, everything is traffickable.
Thus, the more one delinquents, the safer it is; on your sloth they overturn the fear for their misdeeds, they that unity of desires, unity of hatred, unity of fears has forced everyone into a bundle.
Someone will say: what are you proposing (quid igitur censes)? Since to them, such is their arrogance, the harm done will seem minimal, the right to do it again must be taken away, where you will be left with infinite anguish when you realize that either you have to serve, or regain freedom by force.
In fact, what hope is there of loyalty and harmony? They treat our enemies as friends and our enemies as if they were friends: can there be peace and friendship between us and them?
Gaius Sallustius Crispus