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77. I have seen this man myself, and I wondered at him, for nature had bestowed on him all the attributes of a man...

It is universally true that wherever the fine bloom of natural fertility, or of stoutheartedness and courage, or of any other good quality, wherever...

Sometimes the path is smooth, often strangely rough. So with Constantine, affairs did not go as he had hoped. Waves of trouble, one after...

70. It should be superfluous to interrupt the main thread of my history at this point, by dilating on the tremendous effect her death...

Then at other times I have seen her lying on the ground, her tears bathing the earth, while she beat her breasts over and...

Each of her servants had a particular task to perform: one was allotted the duty of bottling the perfumes, another of mixing them, while...

From Proclus I intended to proceed to more advanced studies — metaphysics, with an introduction to pure science, — so I began with an...

I soon mastered the rhetoric enough to be able to distinguish the central theme of an argument and logically connect it with my main...

32. No man was better endowed by Nature with qualities that endeared him to his subjects. He was a good mixer, winning everyone’s affections...

The doors of the senate were thrown open to nearly all the rascally vagabonds of the market, and the honour was conferred not on...