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As JEFF may be to me
that virtue is sufficient for happiness, that nothing except virtue is good, and that the emotions are not to be trusted—three
“No mighty note was ever sounded by a feeble reed.”
“Well, I tell you, for my part, I do not propose to die leaving one ounce of talent unspent, or one mile of energy left in my legs. And it is your destiny, my dear fellow, to walk the road with me.”
commonwealth was saved from anarchy.
realized then just how much he was relying on his old dictum that sometimes you have to start a fight to discover how to win it. He
grasped an important point about clever men of business: that it is not consistent meanness which makes them rich (as many vulgarly assume), but rather the capacity, when necessary, to be unexpectedly, even extravagantly generous.
As Cicero himself once wrote: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
atrium. What was the point in founding a glorious family name if the line was extinct before it even started?
however experienced, must always be frightened before going onstage—“the nerves should be as taut as bowstrings if the arrows are to fly”—and
seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance.
philosophers around the walls, and many little cushioned benches to sit on, for Atticus’s rule was that while he would never lend a book, any of his friends were free whenever they liked to come up and read or even make their own copies.
you may think you can control the mob, but the mob will always end up devouring you.
