If you arrive for a meeting with a man you do not trust, and the man you do not trust does not arrive, do not trust the man who first arrives at the meeting.
Andrew LevkoffTag: meetings tactics meeting-people tactical-advice
Illicit sex, Marcus, drives at least half the decisions of the modern world, wouldn’t you agree?
Andrew LevkoffTag: sex decision-making decisionmaking
You’d be surprised what people will accept once you insist two or three times running that they have seen what you tell them they have seen.
Andrew LevkoffTag: gullibility gullible
Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!
Andrew LevkoffTag: lying unintended-consequences perfidy
I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.
Andrew LevkoffOne has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.
Andrew LevkoffTag: life-experience fate life-lessons
I think about that centurion from time to time and wonder, had he retired to a farm in Campagna, happy with his harvest of grapes and grandchildren, or had he fallen amongst his comrades on some distant, ruined field, defending the honor and the ever-expanding borders of the Republic? What we foreigners have failed to comprehend over the centuries is that the proud centurion would have found either fate equally satisfying. This is why Rome grows, and the rest of the world shrinks.
Andrew LevkoffTag: rome philosophy-of-life
It is a terrible thing to witness death by violence, a thousand times worse to hold a man’s life in your own hands and to willingly, consciously take it from him. Acknowledged or not, something noble has been scoured from your insides, never to be replaced. You saved a friend’s life, and there lies ample justification. But never peace, never balance, never the same. At least that is how it seems to me.
Andrew LevkoffThey say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, there is no time for thought. You do not choose. Like Betto, or Malchus, or Valens, you act, doing either one thing or the other.
Andrew LevkoffTag: fear flight death action act action-over-thought
It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
Andrew LevkoffTag: manners survival etiquette good-manners
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