Continue reading “Life, Death, and Philosophy”The time of a man’s life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption. His soul is restless, fortune uncertain, and fame doubtful; to be brief, as a stream so are all things belonging to the body; as a dream, or as a smoke, so are all that belong unto the soul. Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage. Fame after life is no better than oblivion. What is it then that will adhere and follow?
Control and Choice
Continue reading “Control and Choice”The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…
On The Nature of Wrongdoers
Continue reading “On The Nature of Wrongdoers”BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
On The Shortness of Life
Continue reading “On The Shortness of Life”Men are frivolous with the most valuable thing in the world, blind to its value because it is intangible, because it can not be seen, and for this reason it is considered a very cheap thing – even of almost no value at all.
Of a Happy Life
…true wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in moulding our conduct according to her laws and model. A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature,…
Continue reading “Of a Happy Life”Wings Of Desire
At first it is not possible to describe anything beyond a wish and desire.
That is how it begins, making a film, writing a book, paining a picture, generally creating something.
You have wish.
Morals of an Emperor
From my grandfather I learned
Good morals, and
The government of the temper;
From my father
Modesty, and
Manly character;
From my mother
Piety,
Beneficence,
Abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts, and
Simplicity of the way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich;
A Time for Everything
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…
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