Seon
Not An Evil Liar
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Did I say that you are loved? No, I said you love the people. There is a difference.
Senate does not exist to serve Rome. We, the Senate, are Rome. The Senators are leaders, not servants. We are Romans, not Athenians and their silly concepts of Democracy. Whatever we decide here is the Will of the Republic as a whole. The people do not have this power.
You speak as if the Will of the State is somehow separate from the Will of the Senate, as if they are somehow separate.
This is false.
A person living in our province of Africa does not naturally care about the woes of those in Gaul. People living in Sicily does not naturally care about our woes in Hispania.
It is we, the Senate, who cares. It is we, the Senate, who knows. Our combined powers and knowledge is greater than any other organization in the known world. If there is any that oppose our will, than it will die. It will die so that we, the Senate and the People of Rome, may live in peace. We are not the servants of the Roman People. We are their Leaders. It is a Greek thought to believe that a Leader is a servant of the People.
It is not a Roman Thought. Roman thoughts make sense. A leader leads, he does not serve. If Rome, as a people, rules over the entire world, does the entire world rule over Rome? No, Rome rules the entire world.
Anything else is filthy heresy.
And I see nothing more than my own powers and honors? Oh please. I have never mentioned my own personal glory. I only seek to bring the State to its full glory. Do you see me here running for the consulship? I don't think so.
That is an assertion. A land itself does not feed a Plebian if he does not effectively farm it. Also, your interest? What use does YOUR interest hold in the sacred halls of the Senate? You must convince us that the Reforms are in the best interest of the State and the Senate.
Your interests means Jack. Putting forth your interest over those of the Republic, as you seem to be doing, is unbecoming of a consul.
Also an assertion. You do not know the effects of either policies as it has not happened yet. I merely wish for the less chaotic route.
Improving infrastructure in breadbasket provinces such as Africa and Sicily will improve grain output.
Not breaking apart large plantations will not decrease our grain output.
It's simple like that.
You keep saying the word, egotistic, yet you do not seem to know what that means. Egotistic implies that I will get something out of said observation. Egotistic implies that I never care for another person's valuable opinion.
But I will apologize anyways for my, perhaps out of the line, remarks that these men were your rivals. Surely you were not planning to put them in dangerous campaigns in order that they may see an early death. Surely you were not planning to send them away in commands of the legions in order that their votes not be counted any more in the halls of the senate.
As you are an honorable man who would never deign to such activities, I offer my sincerest apologies.
A True Roman bows to nobody. A true Roman is an honest man with a simple tongue. He speaks what is on his mind. I will offer my apologies that I suggested that you were a sinister criminal mastermind with ulterior motives to almost every bloody action that you take. It was not my intention to say so.
What I had intended to say is that I completely understand your logic to employ Cassidorous, joy of every party and a patron of Bacchus, as your spymaster in Anatolia. Yes.
Yes, I completely see the reasoning behind sending two inexperienced senators to the most dangerous places in our territories while those who are experienced with dealing with management lounge in Italy.
I also applaud your forthrightness in claiming that you will use your position of consulship in order for personal prosperity. Such forthrightness is truly becoming of a True Roman.
Such position, however, is not, you propudium.
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