Justin

“By contrast, everyone can have a good life according to the Cynics, but few of us are inclined to spend it living in a tub and defecating in the streets.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

“Every judge who has sat on a case involving a constitutional claim must have surely experienced the feeling that the particular law being challenged was either unjust or silly or vindictive. It is unfortunately all too easy to translate these visceral reactions into a determination to find some way to hold the law unconstitutional.”
― William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court

“But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say),”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“Many in the party saw in her the same things they had seen in Hillary Clinton – feminism, mastery of policy details, a confident intellect, and so on – and it worried them. Many were gripped with the idea that these qualities had cost the party votes in 2016.”
― Seth Masket, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020