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87. Despite his qualities, Constantine had a hearty contempt for offices of great dignity and preferred to live in retirement. He used to dress...
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84. His lineages therefore, was enough to cover the man with glory, but no one, in attempting a biography of Constantine himself, would be...
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82. I gave her my word of honour, before she could say another word, that I had never entertained such a thought. More than...
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They exhorted him to go at once to the Great Palace, so that there he might make any decisions that were necessary. They were...
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76. At once he embarked on the imperial trireme and put in at Blachernae. Back in the palace, he felt easier and revelled in...
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He would stay at an imperial lodge outside the city, a place surrounded by sea and equipped well enough to please ordinary huntsmen of...
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71. From that time there appeared in the man new qualities, foreign to his normal behaviour. I am speaking from personal observation, as I...
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69. Taken in the mass, this is a nation to be feared, and a treacherous one. Treaties of friendship exercise no restraining influence over...
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68. More than other nations they are difficult to fight and hard to subdue. They are neither vigorous of body, nor brave in spirit....
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In the case of other men, virtue is supposed to be some such thing as not yielding to circumstances, not tempering one’s freedom of...
