![But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.](/assets/img/quote-photos/but-the-arabs-friendship-was-venal-their-faith-inconstant-their-enmity-capri.jpg)
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