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Concerning A Civil Principality (NICOLO MACHIAVELLI)

1. Where a leading citizen becomes the prince of his country, not by wickedness or any intolerable violence, but by the favour of...

11 July, 2021

RESOLUTIONS WHEN I COME TO BE OLD  1699 (JONATHAN SWIFT)

Not to marry a young Woman. Not to be peevish or morose, or suspicious. Not to tell the same story over and over to the...

10 July, 2021

SOCIAL LOAFTING (ROLF DOBELLI)

  WHY TEAMS ARE LAZY In 1913 Maximilian Ringelmann, a French engineer, studied the performance of horses. He concluded that the power of two animals...

09 July, 2021

As children, we are innocent and it is natural for us to express love. But what has happened to us? What has happened to the whole world? (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

As children, we are innocent and it is natural for us to express love. But what has happened to us? What has happened...

08 July, 2021

Life is a tender thing, and easily molested (Michel de Montaigne)

Vain vexations; vain sometimes, but always vexations. The smallest and slightest impediments are the most piercing: and as little letters most tire the...

07 July, 2021

The Stag replied to the anger of the King (JEAN DE LA FONTAIN)

The Lion lost his wife, one day; And everybody made his way To bring the prince that consolation Which makes us feel our desolation. The King announced...

06 July, 2021

Plato warned him to fear and be on his guard against “pleasing only himself, for so he would lose all his friends.” (PLUTARCH)

In what cases then ought a friend to be vehement, and when ought he to use emphatic freedom of language? When circumstances call upon...

05 July, 2021

Is it what it seems to be? (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

Say you had the choice between two surgeons of similar rank in the same department in some hospital. The first is highly refined in appearance;...

04 July, 2021

Vanka (Anton Chekhov)

NINE-YEAR-OLD Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprenticed three months ago to Alyakhin the shoemaker, did not go to bed on Christmas eve. He...

03 July, 2021

The First Step (C. P. CAVAFY)

The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: "I've been writing for two years now and I've composed only one idyll. It's my single completed work. I...

02 July, 2021