What is the highest high you can attain

The Monty Python team in that undergraduate way joked 'What have the Romans ever done for us.'
Well read the classics and you will discover an eternal wisdom for instance the sayings of Seneca


Here are some of Seneca's pithy observations:

The highest of highs is to be understood. 

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'...the wrath of the sword, once drawn, can not be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood
think N. Korea


rursus prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni, ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor.

• Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law. (think of Politicians)
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  • Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 251-253; (Amphitryon)
• Alternate translation: Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. (translator unknown)

Think of the current bi-partisan political divide in America

qui genus iactat suum, aliena laudat.

• Who vaunts his race, lauds what belongs to others

• • Alternate translation: He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another (translator unknown).
    • Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 340-341; (Lycus).

• ars prima regni est posse invidiam pati.
  • 'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate. (Think Trump)