"After this, Rome was no longer a city whose people had but a single spirit, a single love of liberty, a single hatred of tyranny… The distracted city no longer formed a complete whole. And since citizens were such only by a kind of fiction, since they no longer had the same magistrates, the same walls, the same gods, the same temples, and the same graves, they no longer saw Rome with the same eyes, no longer had the same love of country, and Roman sentiments were no more.”
--- Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
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