Sunday, November 23, 2003

Nicias was “a man who, of all the Hellenes in my time, least deserved to come to so miserable an end, since the whole of his life had been devoted to the study and the practice of vitrue”(Thucydides VII.86).

Virtue and Reason, it seems, can be mortal enemies. Which is more important?

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