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Eles são selvagens assim como chamamos selvagens os frutos que a natureza produziu por si mesma e por seu avanço habitual; quando na verdade os que alteramos por nossa técnica e desviamos da ordem comum é que deveríamos chamar de selvagens. Naqueles são vivas e vigorosas, e mais úteis e naturais, as virtudes e propriedades verdadeiras, e, nestes,

Malice aforethought saturates so many simian interactions that one cannot help but conclude it is an endemic feature of the simian character. In fact, perhaps the single greatest contribution apes have made to the world—the single defining contribution for which they will always be remembered—is the invention of malice aforethought. If the reversal

acts of savagery originate with authority, he wrote. The work to be done, he told them, is a refusal of savagery.

Sulla’s sadism was part of the story. Where his enemies a few years earlier had started the gory practice of pinning up the heads of their victims on the rostra in the Forum, Sulla was rumoured to have gone one worse, installing them as trophies in the atrium (or hall) of his house – a nasty parody of the Roman tradition of displaying the portrait

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