Sublime

Be satisfied merely to avoid making any entreaties, without going on to add, ‘And I’ll make no entreaties,’ unless the time has come for you, as in the case of Socrates, to provoke the judges with deliberate intent.

the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.

I really recommend the plays by Euripides or Aeschylus. They deal with a lot of the essential problems we struggle with even today. In khoros.”

For I do believe that there are gods, and in a sense higher than that in which any of my accusers believe in them. And to you and to God I commit my cause, to be determined by you as is best for you and me.

un jour avec le poète Sophocle, quelqu’un lui dit en ma présence : Sophocle, l’âge te permet-il encore de te livrer aux plaisirs de l’amour ? Tais-toi, mon cher, répondit-il ; j’ai quitté l’amour avec joie comme on quitte un maître furieux et intraitable. Je jugeai dès lors qu’il avait raison de parler de la sorte, et le temps ne m’a pas fait chang

Sad story, but how could it happen? How could Louverture, genius of culture and human nature that he was, not perceive the brewing treachery? In a sense, he was like the Greek hero Oedipus, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx but who couldn’t clearly see those closest to him. Louverture’s optimistic view of human

It is telling that Seneca feared being distracted from his purpose by his wife’s pain, a detail that marks the difference from Socrates’ death scene as clearly as anything. Seneca was not blessed with perfect philosophical calm and resolution at all times: he had a constant struggle to abide by his moral purpose.