/lit/ - Literature

>>22572676
Mars Gradivus is the actual Sisyphus; you war uphill fighting all the time and develop incredible strength. If Sisyphus stopped being dumb, like if Atlas stopped being dumb, he would step back and realize he had developed a physique and mental vigor far superior to anyone around him.

rom invic.

>>22486560
>fictional
Civil War, by Gaius Julius Caesar
also Plutarch and Tacitus

Young Caesar:
"Pompeius I'm so envious, O' goodness gracious me,
for every time I stand in line as a young auxiliary,
I hear stories 'bout the cities all 'round the world you founded
and at the tales of your exploits I'm stuck dumb and wholly grounded,

O' I want to build,
a wall around a town,
to stand aloft the battlements,
and jolly holler down,
"this is a Roman, you pock-marked fucking scums,"
and order my own Legion to turn and moon their bums
at the savages from Pontus, the bastards of the Levant,
to march about all shiny-like and have dinner o'er pleasant
conversation with the Pharaoh of Egypt and his court
to have a Golden Statue me raised up amidst my fort,
to have raised a bloody Legion by myself as a Young Man,
to have fought and stood by Sullas side and held his bloody hand
to have sailed around the oceans as the Admiral of my Fleet
and to have seized the loot of Pirate Kings and brought it all about my feet,

O' ....

...

Pompeius I'm so envious, O' goodness gracious me,
say, per chance, could I borrow maybe one of your armies?"


Pompey:
"Oh alright Gaius, just one army. But don't let the power go to your head."

>>22218992
>How do you faggots right these long ass comments?
How did you not learn to speak and read and write fluently in English and arrive on a /literature/ forum?

riiiight, you're /pol/tards doing /pol/sophistry
>>22219000
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>>22220413

>(fluent language is communism)
>(education is gay indoctrination)
hahahaha

>(although jews are very low IQ compared to my own society in the 1700s and all other cultures across the world throughout time, I'm going to insist anybody who speaks better than I do is a Jew)
>(i'm proud of my inability to articulate myself *has a drink* and to be led by others with bad arguments)
baka barbarians

PROTIP: this is why you aren't in control of yourself or your government and you won't ever be until you learn to shake off these self-limiting influences

>>22098525
>>22098509
i wouldn't waste your sanity on this pill head, he'll just pretend you're me >>22098534 >>22098495 and imagine to himself that I'm still talking to him.

>>21863070
This is so inaccurate, Marius and his supporters had just done a night of long knives in the city of Rome against the family of Sullas soldiers who were away defending the borders against Pontus... so they absolutely deserved what they got when Sulla and his army came back.

I recognize the same trick politicians use today, they suddenly stand up, as if totally innocent an removed from event, and begin to talk about law and normalcy... these accounts that you recite to us. They are unoriginal and the defense of such things, spoken in such a way, is itself a common sign of guilt and criminal intent.

"remember what our teachers told us, fathers, that great fear comes only from great guilt,"
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

>"remember what our teacher told us, fathers, that great fear is a sign of great guilt,"
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

>"yes yes it's impressive in a way that the criminal can put his hand into the fire and pi up the iron bar and walk with it, but it would be even more impressive if he wasn't being forced to do so by threat of death,"
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

>"why does it bother you so much, (my rich friend), to see me working with my hands with these other men?"
Gaius Musonius Rufus, in a chain gang digging Neros canal

>"These petty things (sex, wine, opium, gladiator fights) that preoccupy so much of your moral condemnations, Irenaus, are entirely unimportant as to the condition of the soul of a Man: if a golden coin is dropped into the mud does the mud warp the coin and make it no longer gold? If your character is 'gold' then things like wine and sex cannot pollute or influence you negatively in the manner you describe,"
unknown Roman Patrician, to Irenaus (the Christian) (extrapolated from Irenaus's own accounts)

>"I've saved the Empire 100x over, and now I am going to retire to grow cabbages - bye, don't try to contact me again,"
Emperor Diocletian


- mostly paraphrasing from memory

>>20878097
>thanks for the rec about Pompe
yw citizen