"How miserable is the condition of men when the better a thing is, the further it recedes from our sight and the less it is recognized."
— Excellence

January 1, 1970

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Philip Melanchthon, "In Praise of Eloquence," as translated by C. Salazar, in Orations on Philosophy and Education (Cambridge University Press: 1999), p. 62