Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
Mikhail Strabo
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.