Sublime

“Crimes often return to their teacher.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 311

He once quoted the poet Horace from memory: “The man who is just and firm of purpose can be shaken from his stern resolve neither by the rage of the people who urge him to crime nor by the countenance of the threatening tyrant.”

Seneca supplied him with one of his favorite epigrams: “Death weighs on him who is known to all, but dies unknown to himself.”

“Both Alexander the Great and his mule-keeper were both brought to the same place by death—they were either received into the all-generative reason, or scattered among the atoms.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.24