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By the way, do you know Greece? No? (ALBERT CAMUS)

There one has to be pure in heart The Zuider Zee is a dead sea, or almost. With its flat shores, lost in the...

21 October, 2024

Freedom of expression (VLADIMIIR MAYAKOVSKY)

The first night They approach And pick a flower from our garden And we don’t say anything. The second night, No longer hiding, they Stomp on the flowers, kill...

17 October, 2024

Avaricious and Envious (AESOP)

Two neighbours came before Jupiter and prayed him to grant their hearts' desire. Now the one was full of avarice, and the other eaten...

24 September, 2024

Did you not shout for help? (BERTOLT BRECHT – The helpless boy)

Mr. K. talked about the bad habit of silently allowing an injustice suffered to eat at one, and told the following story: A...

13 September, 2024

Be Good, Be Good. A Poem. (MARK TWAIN)

Be good, be good, be always good, And now & then be clever, But don’t you ever be too good, Nor ever be too clever; For such as be...

06 September, 2024

Logic is enough?

6. "'Mouse' (in latin "mus") is a syllable. Now a mouse eats cheese; therefore, a syllable eats cheese." Suppose now that I cannot...

18 May, 2024

Do not love half lovers (KHALIL GIBRAN)

Do not love half lovers Do not entertain half friends Do not indulge in works of the half talented Do not live half a life and...

14 May, 2024

Albert Camus, the goalkeeper : “I learned that the ball never comes when you expect it to. That helped me a lot in life”

While many legendary philosophers and writers developed their ideas during long solitary strolls through the city streets or the countryside, Camus was mostly...

08 May, 2024

The Socratic Gadfly – “if you were to strike me dead, then you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives …”

Men of Athens, do not interrupt, but hear me; there was an agreement between us that you should hear me out. And I...

07 May, 2024

ALCYONE AND CEYX – Happiness, hubris, punishment and the victory of love

The story of Alcyone and Ceyx is very touching and portrays the love that triumphs over tragedy. This young couple was so much...

24 April, 2024