Cassius Dio (c. 163-235)
“[I]f we were to review all the calamities and contingencies which might befall a nation, it would be absurd for us to be more frightened by those dissensions which naturally arise from a democratic system of government than by the tyrannical regimes which are the natural outcome of monarchy.”
- From a speech attributed to Agrippa in Cassius Dio’s The Roman History (Book 52, chapter 13), translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert (Penguin Classics, 1987).
