I'm Tom Holland, historian and host of the Rest is History podcast. My latest book,

Pacts, is a portrait of Rome, The Ultimate Superpower at Peace and War,

from the building of the Coliseum and Hadrian's wall to the destruction of Jerusalem

and Pompeii. This is Rome, the supreme carnivore of the ancient world at the very pinnacle of its greatness. Out now in Paperback, E-book and

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Sam, do you ever find yourself looking at other people's lives, maybe on social media and thinking,

oh, I wish I was like them.

Yeah, we all do that whether we realize it or not because you're exposed to sort of

created versions of other people's lives all the time but you know what they say Andy

comparing is despairing.

And it's true.

You can look at people who you think you've got wonderful lives,

but are they really happy?

Are you happy?

Comparing stuff like that?

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