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(1) 在亚里士多德的《尼各马科伦理学》中，“伟大者”是指“灵魂伟大”的人，他们认为自己配得上伟大的事物，清楚自己在生活中的位置，遵守排除一切渺小行径的伦理体系。“灵魂伟大”的概念尽管被提倡谦卑的基督徒置换掉了，但在黎凡特文化中仍然保留着。“伟大者”具有许多特点，其中包括走路很慢。
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(2) 想想人们对银行和经济组织的反应。
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(3) 看看美联储主席本·伯南克的样子。
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 THE SAGE, THE WEAK, AND THE MAGNIFICENT
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Mediocre men tend to be outraged by small insults but passive, subdued, and silent in front of very large ones.
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The only definition of an alpha male: if you try to be an alpha male, you will never be one.
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Those who have nothing to prove never say that they have nothing to prove.
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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
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How superb to become wise without being boring; how sad to be boring without being wise.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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The mediocre regret their words more than their silence; finer men regret their silence more than their words, the magnificent has nothing to regret.
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Regular men are a certain varying number of meals away from lying, stealing, killing, or even working as forecasters for the Federal Reserve in Washington; never the magnificent.
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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
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When expressing “good luck” to a peer, the weak wishes the opposite, the strong is mildly indifferent; but only the magnificent means it.
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In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
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The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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The two most celebrated acts of courage in history aren’t Homeric fighters, but two Eastern Mediterranean fellows who died, even sought death, for their ideas.
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The weak cannot be good; or, perhaps, he can only be good within an exhaustive and overreaching legal system.
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By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!
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According to Lucian of Samosata, the philosopher Demonax stopped a Spartan from beating his servant. “You are making him your equal”, he said.
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The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death.
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