Mr. K. helped someone out on a difficult matter. Subsequently, the latter gave Mr. K. no thanks of any kind. Mr. K. then astonished his friends by complaining loudly about the ingratitude of the person concerned. They thought Mr. K.'s behavior ill-mannered and even said: Didn't you...
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and...
I'm writing again because of need the time is 5 am the only thing that's left standing in the world is you What should I do with their honours the theatrical words inside the screen of my mind paper-made dead idols Love me, as much as you can, love me When looking inside the...
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein Once upon a time a slave traveled with his master to Baghdad. One morning, while walking through the marketplace, the slave sees Death in human form. Death looks...
At the end of his life, Steve Jobs named five undeniable truths that he realized. Don't educate your children to be rich, educate them to be happy. So when they grow up, they will know the value of things and not the price. Eat your food as your...
From psychopaths to ‘everyday sadists’: why do humans harm the harmless? Why are some humans cruel to people who don’t even pose a threat to them – sometimes even their own children? Where does this behaviour come from and what purpose does it serve? Ruth, 45, London. Humans...
The Curetes were five brothers: Heracles (no relation to the famous hero and son of Zeus) Paeonaeus Epimedes Iasius Idas Legend has it that they were not born but sprang from the earth when it was wet by the first tears of the infant Zeus. This symbolises that...
When the brothers Thyestes and Atreus fought over which would get to rule Mycenae, following the death of the previous king, Eurystheus, Atreus suggested that whoever possessed of a splendid golden ram would be declared king. Unbeknownst to Atreus, his unfaithful wife Aerope had given...
AESOP 625-560 B.C. No author of Greek antiquity has been more read, translated, adapted, embellished, printed, and illustrated than Aesop. According to Herodotus (Histories, 2.134-135), Aesop was a slave who won his freedom by telling fables. Aesop is mentioned by Aristotle, Aristophanes, Athenaeus, Plato, Callimachus, Lucian, Philostratus,...
The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Moliere ALCESTE : I would have people be sincere, and that, like men of honour, no word be spoken that comes not from the heart. . PHILINTE : When a man comes and embraces you...
Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy. The text is extant. The play...
But at nights (Tassos Leivaditis) And look, we got here without luggage but with such a beautiful moon And I dreamed of a better world Poor humanity, you couldn’t write even one more chapter Like a piece of wood from a sad shipwreck our elder continent travels But at nights...
In Greek antiquity, Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon. She was just nine years...
Many years after Sin which they called Virtue in the churches and which they blessed. The tempest that man's mind shall give birth to sweeping away relics of old stars and cobwebbed corners of the sky. And Creation paying for the works of thd ancient...
The intrusion of the economic motive into sex is always in a greater or lesser degree disastrous. Sexual relations should be a mutual delight, entered into solely from the spontaneous impulse of both parties. Where this is not the case, everything that is valuable is absent....
I thank all those who laughed at my dreams; You have inspired my imagination. I thank all who wanted to squeeze me into their scheme; They have taught me the value of freedom. I thank all who have lied to me; You have shown me the power of truth. I thank...
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. There is a deep-seated fear, in most people, of the cold world and...
The Greek philosopher Proclus wrote of the fascination that Ptolemy I, Egypt's pharaoh in 300 B.C., had with geometry. He invited Euclid, the Greek mathematician called "the father of geometry," to Alexandria to teach him. After a week or so, Ptolemy told Euclid that the process...
A farmer’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries; The donkey is looking at him in the eyes waiting for help !But the farmer needs to be a realist. He decides that he can...
Pelops' father was Tantalus, king at Mount Sipylus in Anatolia. Wanting to test the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods. Demeter, deep in grief after the abduction of her daughter Persephone by...
Greek mythology and literature include the histories of several dynasties—those based in Thebes, Crete, Athens, and Mycenae—whose inveterate moral failures brought down retribution upon generation after generation. The curse placed upon the House of Atreus started before the time of Atreus himself, and was first brought...
The following poem is written by Hazel Dyer , mother of Wayne Dyer , to her son WAYNE A mother can but guide ...
ONE day Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to dine with their uncle and aunts Thunder and Lightning. Their mother (one of the most distant Stars you see far up in the sky) waited alone for her children's return. Now both Sun and Wind were greedy...
In the late 17th century, Isaac Newton and Wilhelm Leibniz were easily the greatest mathematicians of the era, both developing calculus on their own, though the notation we currently use is actually from Leibniz. In June 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johannes Bernoulli sent a letter to...
Medusa is one of the most recognizable pop culture and fashion icons! Her powerful image of a woman with a full head of snake hair is unforgettable. Her power to turn a mortal (or a man, depending on the myth) into stone by a single glance...
Croesus was the last king of Lydia, proverbial for his enormous fortune; even nowadays, many Romance languages use the expression “as rich as Croesus” to describe a fabulously wealthy person. Solon, on the other hand, was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, the philosopher-statesman...
The experience machine or pleasure machine is a thought experiment put forward by philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book Anarchy, State and Utopia. It is an attempt to refute ethical hedonism by imagining a choice between everyday reality and an apparently preferable simulated reality. A primary thesis of...
Democritus, known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of ‘cheerfulness,’ was one of the two founders of ancient atomist theory. He elaborated a system originated by his teacher Leucippus into a materialist account of the natural world. The...
ONCE upon a time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha returned to life as his son and heir. And when the day came for choosing a name, they called him Prince Brahma-datta. He grew up in due course; and when he was...
Themistocles. A celebrated Athenian, the son of Neocles and Abrotonon, a Thracian woman, and born about B.C. 514. In his youth he had an impetuous character, and displayed great intellectual power combined with a [p. 1563] lofty ambition and a desire for political distinction. He...
