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Nicole Tremaglio
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In the simple thriller form the antagonist is marked out by their desire to control and dominate the lives of others. They don’t follow the moral codes of the community; more often than not they’re an embodiment of selfishness.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘our end lies in following the gods, and the essence of the good in the correct use of impressions’?
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
The enemy of the artist is the small-time Ego, which begets Resistance, which is the dragon that guards the gold.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
“See how lightning falls on the highest buildings and tallest trees, because heaven brings low all things that surpass greatness,” writes Herodotus in Histories (Book 7, 10). Hybris was synonymous with craven behavior, small-mindedness, the inability to accept the human condition which, compared to the perfect and immortal condition of deities, is
... See moreAndrea Marcolongo • The Art of Running: From Marathon to Athens on Winged Feet
“a man who has been at constant feud with misfortunes acquires a skin calloused by suffering.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us to pieces. Or, changing the metaphor a bit, he tells us that intense pleasures, when captured by us, become our captors, meaning that the more pleasures a man captures,