Vis A Vis Series Quotes

Stoics belittle physical harm, but this is not braggadocio,” James Stockdale wrote. “They are speaking of it in comparison to the devastating agony of shame they fancied good men generating when they knew in their hearts that they had failed to do their duty vis-à-vis their fellow men or God.

​“Si vis pacem, para bellum,” Gray

The story was that after a series of crashes, which had left it with only one serviceable plane, a DC-3, the Nepalese government had asked the United Nations for technical assistance in the form of a multiskilled pilot instructor, master mechanic, accountant, traffic manager, and meteorological expert rolled into one. This rara a vis had been found and sent out to Nepal, where he worked hard for several months. When the time finally came for him to leave, he left by jeep.