Of natural affection (EPICTETUS)
When he was visited by one of the magistrates, Epictetus inquired of him about several particulars, and asked if he had children and...
10 April, 2020
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“Love must not entreat, or demand.” (HERMANN HESSE)
Once when I had stayed away for several days and returned bewildered she took me aside and said: "You must not give way...
09 April, 2020
Judas must have thought that he was being very intelligent, but he was simply cunning.. (OSHO)
After centuries of cunningness man has learned one thing: that to remain innocent is dangerous, you will not be able to survive. Hence...
08 April, 2020
Tragic actors on the stage (NUCCIO ORDINE)
Above all, wealth and power generate false impressions. This is pointed out eloquently by Seneca in his Letters to Lucilius, in which he...
07 April, 2020
Forgive them. Not because they deserve your forgiveness, but for your own sake—truly. (HAEMIN SUNIM)
The person who betrayed you and left, the person who stole from you and disappeared, the person who stabbed you in the back...
06 April, 2020
For in the end, time pronounces nature’s verdict on the worth of all the beings (A. SCHOPENHAUER)
The fascination of distance presents a paradise, vanishing like an optic delusion when we have allowed ourselves to be enticed thither. Happiness therefore...
05 April, 2020
But his enviable spells against the goodness of my sword will accomplish nothing! (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES)
In short, then, he remained at home fifteen days very quietly without showing any signs of a desire to take up with his...
04 April, 2020
Thou art the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and, after all, the fool of the farce. (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)
The uniformity and simplicity of my manners produce a face of easy interpretation; but because the fashion is a little new and not...
03 April, 2020
“My mother” (NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS)
The hours I spent with my mother were full of mystery; we sat opposite each other, she on a chair beside the window,...
02 April, 2020
