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John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads
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For let me tell you, that the more the
Benjamin Jowett • The Republic

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the life story of Thomas More, scholar, philosopher, writer, and advisor to Henry VIII, who was then beheaded by the king, has been well compared to that of Seneca. 13 Seneca as a historical character (rather than as a writer or philosopher) often did come across rather badly in early modern literature and drama
Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
And so he proposes death as the penalty.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
“Stout ropes to check him, and stout oars to guide.” he sent for Aristotle, the most renowned philosopher of the age, to be his son’s tutor, and paid him a handsome reward for doing so.