• The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

  Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher 1588-1679
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1. competition
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3. mutual
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. by : Thomas Hobbes

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