“The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.”
The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
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