The universe is either a confusion, and a mutual involution of things, and a dispersion; or it is unity and order and providence. If then it is the former, why do I desire to tarry in a fortuitous combination of things and such a disorder? and why do I care…

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood. The armies kill themselves, And in their blood an ancient evil dies – The action of incorrigible tragedy. And you, my semblables, behold in blindness That a new glory of new…

The problem with a steel boat is that the crisis curve starts out gradually and quickly becomes exponential. The more trouble she’s in, the more trouble she’s likely to get in, and the less capable she is of getting out of it, which is an acceleration of catastrophe that is…

So he spoke, and stirred the anger in the breast of Aeneas. He went against Idomeneus, strongly eager for battle, Yet no fear gripped Idomeneus as if he were a stripling, but he stood his ground like a mountain wild boar who in the confidence of his strength stands up…