- “For what is just and good is on my side.”
- No chorus of lamentation, no hysterics.
- “Then the only proper response for me to make is this:
‘You are much mistaken, my friend, if you think that any man
worth his salt cares about the risk of death and doesn’t
concentrate on this alone: whether what he’s doing is right or
wrong, and his behavior a good man’s or a bad one’s.’ ” - “It’s like this, gentlemen of the jury: The spot where a
person decides to station himself, or wherever his
commanding officer stations him—well, I think that’s where
he ought to take his stand and face the enemy, and not worry
about being killed, or about anything but doing his duty.” - “But, my good friend, consider the possibility that
nobility and virtue are not synonymous with the loss or
preservation of one’s life. Is it not possible that a real man
should forget about living a certain number of years, and
should not cling to life, but leave it up to the gods, accepting,
as women say, that ‘no one can escape his fate,’ and turn his
attention to how he can best live the life before him?” - To watch the courses of the stars as if you revolved with
them. To keep constantly in mind how the elements alter into
one another. Thoughts like this wash off the mud of life
below.
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