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Tacitus

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Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
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Translation: Because they didn't know better, they called it 'civilization,' when it was part of their slavery.
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Book 1, paragraph 21.
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Longer variant: Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.

 
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