Sublime

temporary ROD, for conduct unbecoming an officer, or CUBO,

In the ancient world, virtue was comprised of four key components. Courage. Temperance. Justice. Wisdom.

There was no system for dealing effectively, through official channels, with ordinary wrongdoing, only a cycle of rough justice and brutal retaliation.

This side was frequently to be on display when Roosevelt dealt with people he had needed once but needed no longer. “Roosevelt was never at his best in getting rid of people no longer useful to him,” Oscar Handlin was to write. “The lack of directness and candor in his actions left a bitter impression of shiftiness, of disloyalty, and of ingratitud

“Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure, and pain.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.19.12b–13