bite your tongue about someone or something you dislike?

He valued his brain more than his ego or his pocketbook.

He wanted to humble himself with hard labor.

the whole world had not been big enough to contain Alexander . . . but in the end, a coffin was sufficient.

Plutarch wrote, “he proceeded to transform that insignificant office into a great and respected honor, even though previously it had involved nothing more than overseeing the clearing of dung and the diverting of water from the streets.”

The gift of his strictness, of his self-containment, was tranquility—amid both success and adversity.

Instead, she approached it as a pastor’s daughter, the person she was raised to be, not the politician she had become.

It’s not the sex or the likes or the drink. It’s the need. And it’s this need that is the source of suffering.

And of one famous Spartan it was said that it was impossible to “find a man who knew more but spoke less.”