Machiavelli - The Good Guy (New Biography - NY Times)

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Machiavelli: Good Guy or Bad? This Biography Argues for the Former

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Clement of Alexandria - Against the Heathen (Kairos?)

 'Well, now, let us say in addition, what inhuman demons, and hostile to the human race, your gods were, not only delighting in the insa...