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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. and the virtue of alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of socrates in his mean and obscure. i can easily conceive socrates in the place of alexander, but alexander in that of socrates i cannot.
-Michel De Montaigne
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The Shortest Way To Arrive At Glory

Michel De Montaigne
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. and the virtue of alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of socrates in his mean and obscure. i can easily conceive socrates in the place of alexander, but alexander in that of socrates i cannot.
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