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Vision

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, in as much as none of the accounts now given...

20 January, 2018

Ithaka (C. P. Cavafy)

As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll...

18 January, 2018

The pencil

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked: ‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is...

17 January, 2018

Horace’s Odes – Β΄- 16 (OTIUM  DIVOS)

For ease, in wide Aegean caught, The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding The moon, nor shines of starlight aught For seaman's guiding: For ease the Mede,...

09 January, 2018

Of Glory (Michel de Montaigne) | Part C’

A dozen men must be called out of a whole nation to judge about an acre of land; and the judgment of our...

31 December, 2017

Of Glory (Michel de Montaigne) | Part B’

Virtue is a very vain and frivolous thing if it derive its recommendation from glory; and ‘tis to no purpose that we endeavour...

30 December, 2017

Of Glory (Michel de Montaigne) | Part A’

We are all hollow and empty; ‘tis not with wind and voice that we are to fill ourselves; we want a more solid...

29 December, 2017

Born in 1501, Gerolamo Cardano was not a child you’d have put your money on (LEONARD MLODINOW) | Part B’

Not all the chapters of Cardano’s book treat technical issues. For instance, chapter 26 is titled “Do Those Who Teach Well Also Play Well?”...

19 December, 2017

Born in 1501, Gerolamo Cardano was not a child you’d have put your money on. (LEONARD MLODINOW) | Part A’

In the years leading up to 1576, an oddly attired old man could be found roving with a strange, irregular gait up and...

18 December, 2017

That We Ought Not to Borrow (Plutarch) | Part B’

Being unable to carry the burden of poverty you put the money-lender upon your back, a burden difficult for even the rich to...

09 December, 2017