“A good man is never less alone than when alone, as Themistocles said.” — Thomas Lodge | V2Melody

“A good man is never less alone than when alone, as Themistocles said.”

On the companionship of noble thoughts in solitude · The Devil Conjured (1596)

About Thomas Lodge

Thomas Lodge

c. 1558–15 September 1625

In the golden twilight of the Elizabethan age, when England's literary Renaissance bloomed with unprecedented vigor, Thomas Lodge emerged as one of the era's most versatile and intriguing figures. Born around 1558 into a world of religious upheaval and artistic flowering, Lodge would navigate a remarkably diverse…

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“The covetous man is good to no man, and worst to himself.”

On the self-destructive nature of greed · Translation of Seneca, Epistulae morales (1614)

“Who hath not heard that the lion is known by his claws?”

On recognising true quality by its evident marks · A Defence of Poetry (1579)

“Words are like to arrows, which are easily shot out, but hardly got in again.”

On the lasting power and danger of spoken words · The Devil Conjured (1596)