I cannot see why this love of company, this strong desire after society, should be construed so much our favour and alleged as a mark of some intrinsic worth in man not to be found in other animals. For to prove from it the goodness...
A woodcutter was very old, without any family - his wife had died and he had no children. Just to feed himself in his old age - and he must have been eighty - he had to work hard to go to the forest to...
Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος, Tántalos) was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus. He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water...
All willing springs from lack, from deficiency, and thus from suffering. Fulfillment brings this to an end; yet for one wish that is fulfilled there remain at least ten that are denied. Further, desiring lasts a long time, demands and requests go on to infinity,...
