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Virtues of Women (PLUTARCH)

THE WOMEN OF PHOCIS The deed of the women of Phocis has not found any writer of high repute to describe it, Byet it is...

14 December, 2021

The material revolution in the West. The common mortals could now find species that were sometimes provided only to the kings. (ALAIN DE BOTTON)

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the countries of the West had witnessed the fastest, most radical transformation in living standards ever known...

13 December, 2021

Pick your battles carefully (ROBIN SHARMA)

I've seen people get into fights that consume the most valuable years of their lives. I know of one gentleman who took on...

12 December, 2021

Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory (MILAN KUNDERA)

But the fragile edifice of their love would certainly come tumbling down. For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity,...

11 December, 2021

He wasn’t the only scientist who owed a discovery to a fearsome wife (BOB FENSTER)

Inventor Charles Goodyear lived in poverty when he wasn't stuck in debtors' prison because none of his inventions worked. He was a man...

10 December, 2021

Albert Einstein – Sigmund Freud, “the meeting”. (RICHARD PANEK)

They met only once. During the New Year’s holiday season of 1927, Albert Einstein called on Sigmund Freud, who was staying at the...

09 December, 2021

Goodwill as the only criterion of honest behavior (IMMANUEL KANT)

There is nothing it is possible to think of anywhere in the world, or indeed anything at all outside it, that can be...

08 December, 2021

There is in the world one road whereon none may go, except thou: ask not whither it lead, but go forward. (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)

But even if the future leave us nothing to hope for, the wonderful fact of our existing at this present moment of time...

07 December, 2021

The greater danger (MICHELANGELO)

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high a nd falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving...

05 December, 2021

And the approbation of others makes me not think the better of myself… (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)

Besides that I am very ignorant in my own affairs, I am struck by the assurance that every one has of himself: whereas...

04 December, 2021