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Brave Aeneas did not take bags of gold and silver with him , but …

Aeneas was the son of Aghisis and the goddess Aphrodite, brother of Lyros and a relative of the king of Troy, Priam. Aeneas...

03 May, 2023

Grey (C.P. CAVAFY)

While looking at a half-gray opal I remembered two lovely gray eyes— it must be twenty years ago I saw them...

02 May, 2023

The issues you are now experiencing all stem from the single word (ICHIRO KISHIMI & FUMITAKE KOGA)

PHILOSOPHER: Well, can you tell me what is going on? YOUTH: You’re asking why I have come to visit this study again? Well, unfortu- nately,...

01 May, 2023

Argos the loyal friend of Odysseus who first recognised his master (HOMER)

Now, as they talked on, a dog that lay there lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears … It was Argos, long-enduring Odysseus’ dog he trained...

30 April, 2023

For we carry our fate with us —and it carries us. (MARCUS AURELIUS)

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need...

29 April, 2023

Selective withholding of truth or Honesty (SCOTT PECK)

The selective withholding of one's opinions must also be practiced from time to time in the world of business or Withholding Truth politics...

27 April, 2023

To become on our own doctors of ourselves (CICERO)

Considering the following two illnesses, the sadness and the desire, are there illnesses of the body which are worse? And how can we...

27 April, 2023

Have you the leisure to search out others’ evils and to pass judgment upon anybody? (SENECA)

But as for you, have you the leisure to search out others' evils and to pass judgment upon anybody? "Why does this philosopher...

26 April, 2023

Sonnet 29 (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)

Sonnet 29 When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look...

25 April, 2023

It takes a long time to develop (DALAI LAMA and HOWARD CUTLER)

If we think of suffering as something unnatural,something that we shouldn’t be experiencing,then it’s not much ofa leap to begin to look for...

24 April, 2023