The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

[Greek: homôs de kai en toutois dialampei to kalon, epeidan pherê tis eukolôs pollas kai megalas atychias, mê di analgêsian, alla gennadas ôn kai megalopsychos.] Aristotle's 'Ethics,' I., xi.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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Frederick Douglass

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