TIMON THE MISANTHROPE (LUCIAN) | Part B’
PLUTUS Oh, if you consider the thing candidly, you will find both attitudes reasonable. It is clear enough that Timon’s utter negligence comes from...
14 December, 2018
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TIMON THE MISANTHROPE (LUCIAN) | Part A’
TIMON My good sir, when is this careless indifference to cease? how long before you will punish such wickedness? Phaethon-falls and Deucalion-deluges — a...
13 December, 2018
These are the things we your friends ask of you, these become you, for these you are designed by nature [(Homer) PLUTARCH]
But since "neither," to use the words of Euripides, "do all troubles proceed only from old age," nor from the stupidity of our friends,...
12 December, 2018
So Robin needs to think about what long-term virtues he is trying to protect through his short-term acts in desperate times. (LOU MARINOFF)
Virtue ethics’ weaknesses are twofold. At one extreme, in Asia, the Confucian emphasis on family as the building block of community, society, and polity...
11 December, 2018
You might have endured unbearable hardship in your life. the pain of loss, illness, or lack. But please don’t let those thoughts convince you that you’re supposed to suffer, that you don’t deserve to be happy… (MO GAWDAT)
Most of the everyday discomforts of adult life are not only transient but also useful. The pangs of hunger prompt you to eat....
10 December, 2018
The material revolution in the West. The common mortals could now find species that were sometimes provided only to the kings. (ALAIN DE BOTTON)
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the countries of the West had witnessed the fastest, most radical transformation in living standards ever known...
09 December, 2018
Do whatsoever you like, but do it with full awareness (OSHO)
There was one great master, a Buddhist master, Nagarjuna. A thief came to him. The thief had fallen in love with the master because...
08 December, 2018
Human problems everywhere, though apparently dissimilar, are really more or less similar. (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)
Human problems everywhere, though apparently dissimilar, are really more or less similar As one travels one is very much aware that human problems everywhere,...
07 December, 2018
Beyond resilience: antifragility. (HECTOR GARCIA και FRANCESC MIRALLES)
As the legend goes, the first time Hercules faced the Hydra, he despaired when he discovered that cutting off one of its heads...
06 December, 2018