For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. “Don’t talk in that way,” he answered; “I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.”
For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. “Don’t talk in that way,” he answered; “I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.”
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.