i'm not gonna lie, as much as i hated the republic, i thought some parts of it were quite good. just thought i'd share them w/ all like 4 of you. :-) "Our quarry is lurking right under our feet all the time and we haven't seen it but have been making perfect fools of ourselves. We are like people searching for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking away into the distance instead of at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it." "Well, of course, custom and principle say that it is best, so far as we can, to bear misfortune patinetly and without complaint; for we cannot tell whether it will turn out well or ill, and nothing is gained by impatience, nor is anything in human life of great consequence; besides, grief prevents us getting just the help we need." "We must learn not to hold our hurts and waste our time crying, like children who've bumped themselves, but to train our mind to cure our ills and rectify our lapses as soon as it can, banishing sorrow by healing it." and one more "For very few people are capable of realizing what we feel for other people must infect what we feel for ourselves, and that if we let our pity for the misfortunes of others grow too strong it will be difficult to restrain our feelings in our own." ok thats it. have a super awesome long weekend! :-D