Sublime

43 Then I said, Ah, she is worn out with adulteries, but they carry on their sexual acts with her. 44For they have gone in to her, as one goes in to a whore. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, wanton women.

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.

the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.

But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask: ‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one

it can’t be sufficient merely to want to become a virtuous and good person,

You must be just one man, either good or bad; you must devote your efforts either to your ruling centre or to external things; in other words, you must assume the part either of a philosopher or of a layman.

if we place the good in right choice, the preservation of our relationships itself becomes a good.

Alcibiade a donc la volonté de prendre en main le destin de la Cité en tant que gouvernant, donc de gouverner les autres ; c’est dans ce contexte et lors de sa confrontation avec Socrate 29 que prend naissance la question du souci de soi. Ce dernier lui recommande la prudence et l’incite avant toute chose à réfléchir sur lui-même, il doit se connaî

inasmuch as hope is merely the title of an uncertain blessing: I