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Groping, staggering, stumbling, and blundering
“As for the natural faculties that are in me, of which this book is the essay, I feel them bending under the load. My conceptions and my judgment move only by groping, staggering, stumbling, and blundering, and when I have gone ahead as far as I can, still I am not at all satisfied: I…
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Glory of Sallust
“Some urge me to write the events of my time, believing that I see them with a view less distorted by passion than another man’s, and from closer, because of the access that fortune has given me to the heads of different parties. What they forget is that even for all the glory of Sallust,…