Sublime

‘Good emperors’ and ‘bad emperors’?

Etruscan kings?

He is the greatest winner in basketball history—eleven NBA championships in thirteen years. Some players can amass individual statistics. Only one has had the strength and focus to keep his team a champion for over a decade.

En face des hommes qui restent dans la règle de la société, obéissent à ses lois, s’adaptent à ses proportions, il veut présenter des personnalités qui se tiennent en marge de la raison moyenne. Il veut étudier la mission véritable du chef et la tragédie de tous ceux qui s’écartent du cercle du commun et se risquent dans la solitude ou s’emmurent d

Lydgate, by betting on his own strokes, had won sixteen pounds; but young Hawley’s arrival had changed the poise of things. He made first-rate strokes himself, and began to bet against Lydgate’s strokes, the strain of whose nerves was thus changed from simple confidence in his own movements to defying another person’s doubt in them. The defiance wa

Ludovico Sforza, Leonardo’s patron in Milan, had a reputation for ruthlessness that included, among other alleged acts, poisoning his nephew in order to seize the ducal crown. But Ludovico was a choir boy compared to Leonardo’s next patron, Cesare Borgia. Name any odious activity and Borgia was the master of it: murder, treachery, incest, debaucher

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.