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Ancients and Moderns under the Empire of Circe: Machiavelli’s The Ass, Translation2 7 7No other animal can be found which has140 a more fragile life, and more desire to live,more confused fear or greater anger.One pig does not give to another pig sorrow,nor one stag to another, only mananother man kills, crucifies, and plunders.145 Think now how you want me to return to being a man,being deprived of all the miseriesthat I endured when I was a man.And if any among men appear to you a god,happy and pleased, do not believe him much,150 because in this mud I live happier,where without thought I bathe and roll.”