Cato the Elder

                        I had the 'wear-with-all' * {where-with-all} to ask, What kind of man do I wanna be ?   Which, inevitably led to, Well, what kinds of men ARE there ?  .   This THIS was-gonna take some time . 

                By 'petitioning' I gained entry into Dr. Ward's "Ancient Greece" Class --  here it is were I was introduced to Plutarch and his Lives of the  Noble Greeks, and Lives of the Noble Romans .  I had found a home wherein lie the Paradigms for a "Noble" Manhood .   Here, now, Relief .

                 I found this from Plutarch on Cato the Elder :  But a man who observed the ancestral custom of working is own land, who was content with a cold breakfast, a frugal dinner, the simplest clothing, and a humble cottage to live in, and who actually thought it was more admirable to renounce luxuries than to acquire them ---  such a person was conspicuous by his own rarity ."

               "Home, sweet, home ."