TEXTS

Wei Zheng advises the emperor (CHINGHUA TANG)

1.SYCOPHANTS “Flatterers and sycophants are pests. To pursue power and profit, they try to find favor with the ruler through their pleasing talk and...

19 December, 2020

The hardest thing was my habit of thinking like a free man (ALBERT CAMUS)

Still, there was one thing in those early days that was really irksome: my habit of thinking like a free man. For instance, I would...

18 December, 2020

Nothing happens while you live [Jean-Paul Sartre (Daniel Klein)]

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked...

17 December, 2020

It is an exceedingly rash thing to let anyone see that you are decidedly superior to him in this respect (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

Now, there is nothing of which a man is prouder than of intellectual ability, for it is this that gives him his commanding...

16 December, 2020

Make sure you look silly so that the clever ones who approach you can be easily revealed (ROBERT GREENE)

In the winter of 1872, the U.S. financier Asbury Harpending was visiting London when he received a cable: A diamond mine had been...

15 December, 2020

If I had my life to live over again… (ERMA BOMBECK)

If I had my life to live over again I would have waxed less and listened more.   Instead of wishing away nine months of...

14 December, 2020

Repression is living a life that you were not meant to live (OSHO)

Repression is living a life that you were not meant to live, repression is doing things which you never wanted to do; repression...

13 December, 2020

The Horses Of Achilles (C. P. CAVAFY)

When they saw that Patroclus was slain, who had been so stalwart, and strong, and young, the horses of Achilles started to weep; their immortal nature...

12 December, 2020

The steps of crisis that a family faces (VIRGINIA SATIR)

I would like to describe the major, natural steps a family undergoes at its members grow. All of these steps mean crisis and...

11 December, 2020