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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
I see now there's nothing sure in mortality but mortality.
Well, no more words – 't shall be revenged i' faith.
Ambitioso, in Tourneur, The Revenger's TragedyNow the dog – the animal upon which, by way of example, we have decided to base our argument – exercises choice of the congenial and avoidance of the harmful, in that it hunts after food and slinks away from a raised whip. Moreover, it possesses an art which supplies what is congenial, namely hunting. Nor is it devoid even of virtue; for certainly if justice consists in rendering to each his due, the dog, that welcomes and guards its friends and benefactors but drives off strangers and evil-doers, cannot be lacking in justice.
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 1.66–7 (trans. Bury)I enjoyed perfect health of body and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries of a secret or open enemy…I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression.
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