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Battle of Navarino

The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October (O. S. 8 October) 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–29), in Navarino Bay (modern Pylos), on...

31 July, 2022

In Sparta (C. P. Cavafy)

He didn’t know, King Kleomenis, he didn’t dare— he just didn’t know how to tell his mother a thing like that: Ptolemy’s demand, to guarantee their...

30 July, 2022

I persist in a childish illusion: the illusion that a man can always better himself. (JEAN-PAUL SARTRE)

“Hell is other people!”: Other people are hell insofar as you are plunged from birth into a situation to which you are obliged to...

29 July, 2022

How Dakis Joannou turned a remote greek island into an Art Mecca (NATE FREEMAN)

On a Monday in late June, after the Art Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland, the billionaire collector Dakis Joannou docked his yacht in...

28 July, 2022

We do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)

Let us add another story, not very improper for this subject, which Seneca relates in one of his epistles: “You know,” says he, writing...

27 July, 2022

If you are not interested in being sensitive, you might as well be dead – and most people are. (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

And how is one to bring about sensitivity? Not that you must have regulations against picking the flowers, for when you are merely...

26 July, 2022

What am I? I am the body? I am what I see, I am what I think? I am what I feel? (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

The mind confuses the needs of the body with its own needs because the mind needs to know: What am I? We live...

25 July, 2022

They do not accept a word of admonition by following which they would acquiesce in the present without fault-finding… (PLUTARCH)

On Tranquillity of Mind We can, however, make this reply to Menander: "True, No man alive may say, 'I shall not suffer this,' yet while still alive...

24 July, 2022

That’s why you call it happiness because it happens (OSHO)

"Pursuit of happiness"?   Nobody has ever succeeded in it, and those who have tried have become very unhappy and miserable in their life.   Happiness happens....

23 July, 2022

What then would they call us who love you? (RABINDRANATH TAGORE)

Where are those tears in your eyes, my child? How horrid of them to be always scolding you for nothing! You have stained your fingers...

22 July, 2022