Baudelaire, in
My Naked Heart
, writes that "nations produce great men only in spite of themselves."
And if he were a Spanish author, he would have added that when these "abnormal" individuals appear, they have to devote as much effort to their work as to defend themselves from the attacks of their offended fellow citizens.
Valerio Máximo devoted several chapters of his
Acts to ingratitude to this
.
They could be summarized in the epitaph that Scipio the African, conqueror of Carthage and later persecuted
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