Corruption is a force multiplier for the West's enemies, and yet the West continues to accept dirty money into its economies by the billion.

Salvianus Massiliensis[…]saith, that amongst French-men, to lie and forsweare is no vice but a manner of speach. He that would endeare [translating encherir] this Testimonie, might say, it is now rather deemed a vertue among them.

I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.

Few of the chroniclers of Nero’s reign have been accurate when relating the situation that obtained between the Emperor and his mother from the time when, reft of her German and Pannonian guards, she lived in a more or less solitary rage on one estate or another.