Morituri Salutamus – Poem For The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Class Of 1825 In Bowdoin College by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.–OVID, Fastorum, Lib. vi. “O Caesar, we who are about to die Salute you!” was the gladiators’ cry In the …
I recently became aware of the poem below, written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and could not help but think it must have been inspired to some degree by stoic philosophy. Specifically the following Marcus Aurelius quote on the emptiness of fame. People who are excited by posthumous …
TED Talk Share: The above TED Talk is the sort of thing I can’t help but share. Author, Elizabeth Gilbert tackles the question of how writers (or any creative person) go about creating a protective psychological construct between themselves and the anxiety about what the reaction will be to what …
