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>Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to labor.

>>7170958

Look at arguably the most famous Greek of them all, Alexander. Noble disposition, relatively humane, but also given over to fits of excess. Even stripping away all the Athenian slander of his life and deeds, there's still a highly complex and conflicted kernel left over.

In battle he strove to emulate Achilles, minus the penchant for sulking. In diplomacy he was much like Odysseus, using wit and rhetoric to achieve his aims. Throw in a little Xenophon (his model general) and a dash of the philosopher (a la Aristotle) and you have one of the most sublimely intricate people that has ever lived.

Humility is a vice. To think yourself lowly, pathetic, vulgar, or bad will make you lowly pathetic vulgar and bad. Pride, humility's antithesis, is the foundation of all good and noble conduct.
>>6898999
What kind of person would spend their lives apologizing for being alive, then ask for more life just to keep apologizing? What a pathetic, disgusting creature.

>>6215054

iktfb

Daily reminder that both misogyny AND philogyny were considered aberrant mentalities by the Greeks

definitely not

It's just that the rise of monotheism has pretty well forced mankind to breed women for looks

Seeing as all the great men are in the past, I find history extremely uplifting

Of course most of it is shit and not worth learning about, but that's because history is mostly the same people doing the same things for the same reasons

Can someone help me compile a rough list of important leaders in history who had famous philosophers as tutors/early educators?

Just throw out any names that come to mind

>>4965148

Schopenhauer is dead

The only 'god' I worship is Alexander

unlike your ressentiment-born deity, he represents noble values and the pathos of life-affirmation

I find myself sympathizing with this guy a lot. I too am deeply in love with myself and my work, and feel in my heart that I rank near the upper echelon of mankind as it exists today.

But I honestly don't care enough about other people or society at large to even think about 'revenging myself' against them. That would be incredibly vulgar in my opinion.

And moreover, I don't believe anyone's life is worth my freedom