2009-02-24 15:32:57.311358+01 by Dan Lyke 3 comments
Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost 1.261-263:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
Achilles, in The Odyssey:
... I'd rather live working as a wage-labourer for hire by some other man, one who had no land and not much in the way of livelihood, than lord it over all the wasted dead.
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-02-25 23:24:36.269716+01 by: meuon
"big fish in a small pond" - that was me. 1989. the pond has gotten much bigger. And in a way, I've kept up.
#Comment Re: made: 2009-02-25 01:59:39.832453+01 by: TheSHAD0W
Remember that Milton's Satan was, well, Satan.
And yeah, I've known lots of people who'd rather be the big fish in a small pond.
#Comment Re: made: 2009-02-24 17:39:31.246139+01 by: pknox
Last words of Truman's VP, Alben W. Barkley, before he died suddenly on the Senate floor:
"I'm glad to sit on the back row, for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty."
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