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The Ant and the Dove

An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream,...

12 December, 2016

Machiavellianism

Machiavellianism is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct".The word comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer...

11 December, 2016

What glory, this, for Herodis Attikos!

Alexander of Selefkia, one of our good sophists, on reaching Athens to lecture finds the city deserted because Herodis was in the countryside. And all the...

07 December, 2016

The Three Tradesmen

A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer earnestly...

05 December, 2016

Beauty and the Illiterate

Often, in the Repose of Evening her soul took a lightness from the mountains across, although the day was harsh and tomorrow foreign. But, when it...

30 November, 2016

The Bald Man and the Fly

A fly bit the bare head of a Bald Man who, endeavoring to destroy it, gave himself a heavy slap. Escaping, the Fly said...

28 November, 2016

The Last Day

The day was cloudy. No one could come to a decision; a light wind was blowing. ‘Not a north-easter, the sirocco,' someone said. A few...

26 November, 2016

Unfaithfulness

“So although we approve of many things in Homer, this we will not approve of...

22 November, 2016

The Father and His Two Daughters

A man  had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the...

21 November, 2016

Idealism

In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally...

13 November, 2016