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No matter how she comported herself - at all times she seems to have been as deft with her image as her person - she broke every rule in the book. A queen at home, she was courtesan out of her country. And she was something more dangerous still: a courtesan with means. Cleopatra was not merely economically independent, but richer than any man in Rome.
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― Cleopatra: A Life
― Cleopatra: A Life
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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur o
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― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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