You're going to have moments where comfort collides with your conscience where it collides with your career where there is corruption and temptation and it's probably safer and better to do what everyone else is doing. For Helvidius, philosophy was armor. It was preparation for this moment.
It's not a principle until it costs you something. We become less just as humans every time we remove ourselves a little bit further from the hand on the fire.
3w ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.