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Agamemnon nods, a dismissal, and we turn to go. Iphigenia. A tripping name, the sound of goat hooves on rock, quick, lively, lovely.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Only, consider at what price you’re willing to sell your power of choice. If nothing else, make sure, man, that you don’t sell it cheap.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
when one has shown what his judgements are, then one has shown what he is as a human being.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
And here, O men of Athens, I must beg you not to interrupt me, even if I seem to say something extravagant. For the word which I will speak is not mine. I will refer you to a witness who is worthy of credit; that witness shall be the God of Delphi—he
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason;
Various Artists • Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated): Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.