Plutarch, Sallust And The Fall Of The Roman Republic

On a much more dangerous scale, wars are always started to obtain what another country already has. Many greater nations have all this wealth, yet they have no idea of how it should be handled so it can be a blessing rather than a curse. A major problem is that wealth is advancing but justice and wisdom are moving at a much slower pace. “Wealth useless without virtue and wisdom… Witness those ancient empires of the earth, in height of all their flowing wealth dissolved: but men endued with these have oft attain’d in lowest poverty to highest deeds” (Milton 433-438). As a matter of fact, ancient historians such as Plutarch, Sallust, and Cicero wrote on the fall of the Roman Republic and explained why the wealth had collapsed because of the actions