To sell your soul—what does that mean? (ROLF DOBELLI)
The Alps. An enormous obstacle in the middle of Europe. For centuries they’ve blocked the transport of people and goods between North and South,...
The Alps. An enormous obstacle in the middle of Europe. For centuries they’ve blocked the transport of people and goods between North and South,...
Out of talk, appearance, and manners I will make an excellent suit of armor; and in this way I will face malicious people without feeling the...
Scientists’ experiments on mice are very revealing. They opened up the brain of a mouse, and a sort of window was kept open...
Princes, especially new ones, have found more fidelity and assistance in those men who in the beginning of their rule were distrusted than...
Aside from the connection it posits between making money and being good, the modern ideal of a successful life imputes a further connection:...
Plant and animal species are disappearing at an ever faster rate due to human activity. What are the causes and why does biodiversity...
This consent, or concord, amongst so many men, though it may be made by the fear of a present invader, or by the...
In February 63, Seneca’s friend Lucilius, a civil servant working in Sicily, learned of a lawsuit against him which threatened to end his...
One day a man cooked the largest of the animals he had in his herd and said to his brother: - Go out and...
I grew up in the sea and poverty was sumptuous, then I lost the sea and found all luxuries grey and poverty unbearable....