Will Durant: "From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day."
https://www.tftc.io/monetary-inflation-history-rome-modern-lessons/
"The commonwealth was not yet lost in Tiberius's days, but it was already doomed and Rome knew it. The fundamental trouble could not be cured. In Italy, labor could not support life..." - Vladimir Simkhovitch, "Rome's Fall Reconsidered"
Will Durant: "From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day."
https://www.tftc.io/monetary-inflation-history-rome-modern-lessons/