This reminded me of a part in Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus, having learned the cost of pride and wrath through twenty years of absence, and having arrived back in the tattered garb of a beggar, tries to impart some of his wisdom to Amphinomus:
"I too seemed destined to be a man of fortune once,
"and a wild wicked swath I cut, indulged my lust for violence,
"staking all on my father and my brothers. Look at me now.
"And so, I say, let no man ever be lawless all his life,
"just take in peace what gifts the gods will send."
This reminded me of a part in Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus, having learned the cost of pride and wrath through twenty years of absence, and having arrived back in the tattered garb of a beggar, tries to impart some of his wisdom to Amphinomus:
"I too seemed destined to be a man of fortune once,
"and a wild wicked swath I cut, indulged my lust for violence,
"staking all on my father and my brothers. Look at me now.
"And so, I say, let no man ever be lawless all his life,
"just take in peace what gifts the gods will send."
Good point! Should have made reference to that, thanks for mentioning it!
"The easy path is to fill oneself with addictions or with melancholia or anger, this is the filling of one’s heart with non-virtuous things."
This is so very true.
Thanks and sadly very true, I write from a great deal of experience in that regard, it's a real struggle to live with a virtuous heart.