My vibe was to just move forward at a really cool pace.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.
If you don't know how, why pretend?