"He left a corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes."
— Lord Byron

January 1, 1970

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Canto III, stanza 24; this can be compared to: "Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, "Democritus to the Reader".