The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. (Thomas Hobbes)

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

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