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We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.
Hybris it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
But Hybris is the foe that we shall face.
Strength is one of the four cardinal virtues that draws upon numerous millennia of philosophical traditions.
It speaks of our inner power and the human spirit's ability to endure in difficult times.
Courage! Be steadfast as a mountain
that does not bend its stately summit
to storms and lightning's shock!
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
Live well, how long or short permit to Heaven.
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
Temperance is a multifaceted ancient virtue. As the opposite of hubris, it enables us to carefully balance internal forces. The journey to our interpretation wasn't easy, but hopefully worth it.
As the unexpected challenges the soul,
steady, one rise up to take on the world,
for what is dear, to challenge its own right for being.