Author: Nicolò Machiavelli

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• Jules Evan (1)
  • IN: Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations (2013) Non-Fiction, Philosophical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death...
    FROM: Letter to Francesco Vettori Florence, (1513), Letter, Italy