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That bad habit Aristotle calls the vice of cowardice (MORTIMER J. ADLER)

Aristotle calls another aspect of moral virtue courage. Just as temperance is an habitual disposition to resist the lure of pleasures for the sake...

03 December, 2021

Optimism: The great motivating force (DANIEL GOLEMAN)

Seligman defines optimism in terms of how people explain to themselves their successes and failures. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to...

02 December, 2021

On Glory (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)

We are all hollow and empty; it is not with wind and sound that we have to fill ourselves; to restore ourselves we...

01 December, 2021

The Wisdom of Goethe 1 (JOHANN PETER ECKERMANN)

I have ever been esteemed one of Fortune's chiefest favourites; nor will I complain or find fault with the course my life has...

30 November, 2021

The stork was caught together with the cranes (AESOP)

AFarmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he...

29 November, 2021

To me destiny is not about the place you end up but the path that you are on. (JOHN IZZO)

Similar to our concept of destiny, destina concerns the idea that each one of us has a true path that we were born...

28 November, 2021

The Antidotes (OVID)

If you’ve regrets, and moderate emotions touch your heart, then halt your feet, while you can, at the first threshold. Crush the evil germs of...

27 November, 2021

Usually the megalomaniac is the product of some excessive humiliation (BERTRAND RUSSELL)

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared...

25 November, 2021

Heaven without the choice of hell will be hell itself (OSHO)

To me, to be innocent is all that is to be achieved. Be innocent, and the divine is always blissfully flowing toward you....

24 November, 2021

On the Control of Anger (PLUTARCH)

But we should, as Panaetius also has somewhere remarked, make use of the precept of Anaxagoras, and just as he, at the death...

23 November, 2021