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71. From that time there appeared in the man new qualities, foreign to his normal behaviour. I am speaking from personal observation, as I...
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69. Taken in the mass, this is a nation to be feared, and a treacherous one. Treaties of friendship exercise no restraining influence over...
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68. More than other nations they are difficult to fight and hard to subdue. They are neither vigorous of body, nor brave in spirit....
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In the case of other men, virtue is supposed to be some such thing as not yielding to circumstances, not tempering one’s freedom of...
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65. An example of this is found in his treatment of the Patriarch Michael.**209 The latter had spoken frankly to him on a certain...
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Nothing on earth restrained him, no proffering of wiser counsels, no fear for the future, no hatred of the mob, none of the other...
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In pursuit of such a policy it was inevitable that he should add to his other victims the priests of the Church. Indeed, he...
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Nor were they satisfied with the presentation of a mere sufficiency to their places of meditation (we had better call them that). The imperial...
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58. Isaac was a devotee of the philosophic life: he abhorred anything that was physically diseased or corrupt. But his hopes were disappointed, for...
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55. This emperor also having quickly met his end — I will pass over his nephew who, after a wretched reign, came to an...
