Antoninus Pius, while imperfect, for the most part ruled with prudence, restraint, and moderation. More recently (and much less importantly), my friend and former Foundation for Economic Education president Larry Reed asked me to identify one good Roman emperor—besides Marcus Aurelius. I immediately felt a bit...
And one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of Good and Evil. And he answered: Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For...
In the final analysis, where is truth? In the erosion and death we see around us, or in this propensity to believe that the world is indestructible and eternal? I know, it is wise to avoid redundancies. The cosmogonic theories that have succeeded each other...
There one has to be pure in heart The Zuider Zee is a dead sea, or almost. With its flat shores, lost in the fog, there’s no saying where it begins or ends. So we are steaming along without any landmark .. We are making progress...
Two neighbours came before Jupiter and prayed him to grant their hearts' desire. Now the one was full of avarice, and the other eaten up with envy. So to punish them both, Jupiter granted that each might have whatever he wished for himself, but only on condition...
Mr. K. talked about the bad habit of silently allowing an injustice suffered to eat at one, and told the following story: A boy was crying to himself and a passerby asked what was wrong. 'I had saved two dimes for the movies,' said the...
6. "'Mouse' (in latin "mus") is a syllable. Now a mouse eats cheese; therefore, a syllable eats cheese." Suppose now that I cannot solve this problem; see what peril hangs over my head as a result of such ignorance! What a scrape I shall be...
While many legendary philosophers and writers developed their ideas during long solitary strolls through the city streets or the countryside, Camus was mostly indebted to the football pitch. One can imagine a young Camus shouting at the referee (in French, of course), “That was absurd, you...
Men of Athens, do not interrupt, but hear me; there was an agreement between us that you should hear me out. And I think that what I am going to say will do you good: for I have something more to say, at which you...
The story of Alcyone and Ceyx is very touching and portrays the love that triumphs over tragedy. This young couple was so much in love that neither the gods nor death could set them apart. Alcyone followed her husband to the other life and did...
