Sublime

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. I love better to see stones in place. The grandeur of Thebes was a vulgar grandeur. More sensible is a rod of stone wall that bounds an honest man’s field than a hundred-gated Thebes that has wandered farther from the true end of life.

The essay On the Constancy of the Wise Man deals with a comparable subject and is addressed to another great friend of Seneca’s, Serenus Annaeus (possibly a relative, who later became a powerful man in Rome—probably thanks to Seneca’s intervention). The name “Serenus” means “Calm,”

Sam was all in on the sacrifice. Caroline Ellison wasn’t like that. She lacked confidence in herself. “She was borrowing her ego from Sam because she lacked one,” said George. “Sam gave her real inner strength.” In George’s EA patient population, Caroline defined the other end of the spectrum of willingness to sacrifice for her principles. When

"This is no savage country, my friend. But no men? Boys, it behooves us to go forward most politely."

If I be King, not one of them shall live.

Socrates had said something about ignorance: All I know is that I know nothing.

if a man loses the responsibility for these rudimentary functions and forms of freedom, he loses not only his citizenship, but his manhood.

misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same