We can think of Ajax who, disappointed at having been deprived of Achilles' weapons in favor of Ulysses, descends into furious madness and massacres a flock of sheep, believing them to be the leaders of the Greek army, before committing suicide when he regains his senses.

We know the cardinal virtues, which were already praised by philosophers long before Christianity, notably by Plato and Aristotle: prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude. In this Licorne (Unicorn) n°20, I suggest you examine this curious virtue: strength. Sometimes referred to as "virtus", sometimes as "fortitudo", it seems to be the pivotal virtue of all the other virtues.

Nothing is given, everything is to be conquered, and the aspiration to the sublime is what we are allowed to experience in Florence: time has stopped there on good taste, on beauty "universal and without concept", as Emmanuel Kant would later say.

"In the spring, which suits this city so well that speaks to us of flowers, I decided to come from South America to finally realize an old dream: to reopen, with a group of apprentice philosophers, the Neoplatonic Academy of Marsilio Ficino."

The art of seizing the opportunity is not an exact science. It is not transferable or reproducible according to external criteria, because it calls more on intuition than reason, that quality which creates geniuses, great men, fine strategists, good doctors or even great seducers.

Since the beginning of this "pandemic", I had only written a brief article on "health totalitarianism", needing myself to see it clearly enough with hindsight to make a decision. Nevertheless, we can recognize, at a global level, with some nuances depending on the country, the mark of a delusional paranoiac contagion which shows its odious face more and more every day.