“Don’t trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours—namely, your judgments about the things that you control and don’t control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye (more…)
No one has had so much divine favor That they could guarantee themselves tomorrow. God keeps our lives hurtling on, Spinning in a whirlwind.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 613 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri tuliyoiona leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza (more…)
“This is the very thing which makes up the virtue of the happy person and a well-flowing life—when the affairs of life are in every way tuned to the harmony between the individual divine spirit and the will of the director of the universe.” —CHRYSIPPUS, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES (more…)
“There is no evil in things changing, just as there is no good in persisting in a new state.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.42 Ni siku mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumeipata nafasi nyingine ya kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Msingi wetu ni (more…)
“Just as we commonly hear people say the doctor prescribed someone particular riding exercises, or ice baths, or walking without shoes, we should in the same way say that nature prescribed someone to be diseased, or disabled, or to suffer any kind of impairment. In the case of the doctor, (more…)
“But I haven’t at any time been hindered in my will, nor forced against it. And how is this possible? I have bound up my choice to act with the will of God. God wills that I be sick, such is my will. He wills that I should choose something, (more…)
“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 8 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ambayo tumeiona leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka (more…)
“The human being is born with an inclination toward virtue.” —MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 2.7.1–2 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa kupata nafasi hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni fursa bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Msingi wetu ni NIDHAMU, UADILIFU NA (more…)
“Aren’t you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and to dedicate to wisdom only that time can’t be directed to business?” —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 3.5b Ni siku nyingine nzuri, siku mpya na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumeipata nafasi hii nyingine bora sana (more…)
“Each person acquires their own character, but their official roles are designated by chance. You should invite some to your table because they are deserving, others because they may come to deserve it.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 47.15b Kupata nafasi hii nyingine ya kuiona siku ya leo ni jambo la kushukuru (more…)