An epigraph in the movie Apocalypto turned me on to further explore Will Durant.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within
Looked into the Wikipedia entry and found that it is part of the following work by him.
The Story of Civilization (Vol 3 Caesar And Christ. Epilogue - Why Rome fell): A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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