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The house near the sea (GEORGE SEFERIS)

The houses I had they took away from me. The times happened to be unpropitious: war, destruction, exile; sometimes the hunter hits the migratory birds, sometimes...

10 November, 2020

To lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor. (SCHOPENHAUER)

By a peculiar weakness of human nature, people generally think too much about the opinion which others form of them; although the slightest...

09 November, 2020

Learning to live with and love others requires skills delicate and studied (LEO BUSCAGLIA)

In fact, those who appear to have succeeded in having come to terms with life have seemed to expect little more. As Anne...

08 November, 2020

The Battle of Munda (PHILIP BARLAG)

"No" was not something Caesar heard very often, especially from his army. Openly defying his orders, his men folded their arms and refused...

07 November, 2020

As for the prospect of death itself Socrates believed… (ANTHONY GOTTLIEB)

One story has it that as Socrates was leaving the court, a devoted but dim admirer called Apollodorus moaned that the hardest thing...

06 November, 2020

My Declaration of Self-Esteem (Virginia Satir)

Happily, it is possible to raise anyone’s self-esteem, no matter what one’s age or condition. Since the feeling of low worth has been...

05 November, 2020

Prometheus against Zeus. First Scene. (VERNANT JEAN PIERRE)

How to assign the relative positions of gods and men? Settling matters by brute force is no longer thinkable here. Humans are too...

04 November, 2020

Theano of Crotone

Theano of Crotone (/θiˈænoʊ/; Greek: Θεανώ; fl. 6th-century BC) is the name given to perhaps two Pythagorean philosophers. She has been called the...

03 November, 2020

THE FRIENDLY WOOD (PAUL VALERY)

Meditations pure were ours Side by side, along the ways; We held each other's hand without Speaking, among the hidden flowers.   Alone we walked as if betrothed, Lost...

02 November, 2020

Books (HERMAN HESSE)

April 1918 Books All the books of this world Will bring you no happiness Yet they secretly show you the way, Back to yourself. There is everything, that you...

31 October, 2020