POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Oliverotto Euffreducci
5 Apr 2016
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Butchered the entire senate and all the leading families of syracuse. Killed all his political rivals to obtain the throne. Both had no virtu and little fortune. It certainly cannot be called virtu to murder his fellow citizens, betray his friends, to be devoid of truth, pity, or religion; a man may get power by these means, but not glory. (25) One aimed at achievining stability, but the other aggrandized his own power. Diference between cruelty and virtu, between one that will achieve glory and one that will not. It may be true that fortune governs half our actions, but that even so she leaves the other half more or less in our power to control. (67) So with fortune, who exerts all her power where there is no virtu prepared to oppose her, and turns to smashing things up wherever there are no dikes and restraining dams. (67) Spend as little time on cruel actions as possible.
