It takes more courage to make an end than to make a new verse: all physicians and poets know that. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings. Guns, Germs And Steel

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. Never Give In!

That man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. Letters from a Stoic