Sublime

Knowledge is gained that can never be lost; where they have ‘sought’, here they ‘find’ and they can never go back.

the life story of Thomas More, scholar, philosopher, writer, and advisor to Henry VIII, who was then beheaded by the king, has been well compared to that of Seneca. 13 Seneca as a historical character (rather than as a writer or philosopher) often did come across rather badly in early modern literature and drama

I will endure a melancholy life, And let him frolic with his minion.

with his passing, there remained only one Perfect still at large in the Languedoc. William Bélibaste was from the Corbières who, sometime before Easter 1305, had killed a fellow shepherd.

back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes.

How’s tricks in the sticks,

Thrasea Paetus. Thrasea was not a philosopher or writer but a politician and an aristocrat, a member of the Senate, who is presented, in both Tacitus and Dio, as a man of absolute integrity. He was the only one who expressed disapproval of the speech Seneca delivered to the Senate in defense of Nero’s killing of his mother: when it was delivered, T