Person sitting casually back to back with a statue of a seated human figure carved from black stone — Jason Koski/Cornell University Michael Fontaine, professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, edited and translated “How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In.”

Listen to the ancients: Don’t cave to peer pressure, improper requests

Classics

By | David Nutt , Cornell Chronicle

8/12/2025

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