Status Updates From The Last of the Wine (Vintage)

'Oh, yes, Ariston's son, the lad who talks like a prince. I've not seen him since.' - 'You'll be seeing him soon; he's going to the Games with us, to wrestle in the boys' class.' - 'You were right, then, when you said he would be heard of again.' - 'Yes, and I fancy his chances too, unless another city puts up someone outstanding. He was born for a wrestler, it's stamped all over him, too clearly indeed for grace...

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

As the mould is broken and falls to dust, while the statue of bronze endures, I cannot call the pain to life again; yet remember like yesterday the scents of night, the Galaxy hanging like spray in the deep sky, the cresset burning on an anchored ship, and the cry of a waking lamb answered by the night-jar.