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“The Romans were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.”
- Simone Weil (1943)
#Sculpture, Capitoline Brutus.