The night rider
I think it's the cold weather,
I've had the window open and cannot breathe.
Can't bear the cold anymore.
Cannot bear Texan women,
for they bear the cold yet wear
warmth which ruins the snow.
And this is why we go to parks.
To see the snow.
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Cato moved from his uncle's house and began to study Stoic philosophy and politics. He began to live in a very modest way, as his great-grandfather Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder had famously done. Cato subjected himself to violent exercise, and learned to endure cold and rain with a minimum of clothes. He ate only what was necessary and drank the cheapest wine on the market. This was entirely for philosophical reasons; his inheritance would have permitted him to live comfortably. He remained in private life for a long time, rarely seen in public. But when he did appear in the forum, his speeches and rhetorical skills were most admired.
ReplyDeleteCato, unwilling to live in a world led by Caesar and refusing even implicitly to grant Caesar the power to pardon him, committed suicide in April 46 BC. According to Plutarch, Cato attempted to kill himself by stabbing himself with his own sword, but failed to do so due to an injured hand. Plutarch wrote:
Cato did not immediately die of the wound; but struggling, fell off the bed, and throwing down a little mathematical table that stood by, made such a noise that the servants, hearing it, cried out. And immediately his son and all his friends came into the chamber, where, seeing him lie weltering in his own blood, great part of his bowels out of his body, but himself still alive and able to look at them, they all stood in horror. The physician went to him, and would have put in his bowels, which were not pierced, and sewed up the wound; but Cato, recovering himself, and understanding the intention, thrust away the physician, plucked out his own bowels, and tearing open the wound, immediately expired.
Some people would rather live a disgusting life of misery, sloppiness, poor etiquette, and ugliness, than die the same way, even if it would reward their legacy with one positive thing: a gruesome and immediate expiry.
ReplyDeleteIf something doesn't happen on this blog in the next week I'm going to quit following it and change my last name to Campagnolo.
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