Churchill referred to his bluer episodes with an expression that Colville told the distinguished Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert he...

But even here, as at Osborne, my great-grandmother (Queen Victoria), in her craving to immortalize her own private memories and ward off...

Epictetus, "Are we, then, at a loss to know how it comes about that we are subject to fear and anxiety? Why, what else can possibly happen, when we regard impending events as things evil? We cannot help but be in fear, we cannot help but be in anxiety. And then we say, “O Lord God, how may I escape anxiety?” Fool, have you not hands? Did not God make them for you? Sit down now and pray forsooth that the mucus in your nose may not run! Nay, rather wipe your nose and do not bla