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Τhe myth of Eros and Psyche

Τhe myth of Eros and Psyche is probably one of the best love stories in classical mythology. Eros, son of Aphrodite, was the...

02 November, 2021

Power is timely action, not quick action (ROBERT GREENE)

The famous seventeenth-century Ming painter Chou Yung relates a story that altered his behavior forever. Late one winter afternoon he set out to...

02 November, 2021

In the ultimate analysis of life, name and fame are just irrelevant (OSHO)

Ambition is poison. If you want to be a better musician, I can help you, but don't think in terms of becoming world-famous....

01 November, 2021

Can happiness be a choice? (WAYNE DYER)

The following questions are designed to measure your capacity to choose happiness and fulfillment. Go through the questions as objectively as possible and...

31 October, 2021

Introduction to the war between Athens and Sparta (THUCYDIDES) | Part B’

12. For also after the Trojan war the Grecians continued still their shiftings and transplantations; insomuch as never resting, they improved not their...

30 October, 2021

Introduction to the war between Athens and Sparta (THUCYDIDES) | Part A’

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians as they warred against each other, beginning to write as...

29 October, 2021

Candles (C.P. CAVAFY)

Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy...

28 October, 2021

Respect is a beautiful word (DON MIGUEL RUIZ & DON JOSE RUIZ)

Respect is a beautiful word, and it’s one of the most important symbols that we can understand. Imagine that you had never heard...

27 October, 2021

In a classroom if the teacher compares one boy to another and says, “You are not as smart as the other”, he destroys both of them (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

So, what happens in the world is that everybody is fighting somebody. One man is lesser than another man. There is no love,...

26 October, 2021

Man has no knowledge (Michel de Montaigne) | Part B’

Whoever goes in search of any thing must come to this, either to say that he has found it, or that it is...

25 October, 2021