“You’ll more quickly find an earthly thing kept from the earth than you will a person cut off from other human beings.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.9.3 Ni bahati iliyoje kwa kila mmoja wetu aliyeweza kuiona siku hii mpya ya leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka (more…)
“Crimes often return to their teacher.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 311 Kupata nafasi hii nzuri ya kuiona siku ya leo ni bahati ya kipekee sana kwetu. Siyo kwa sababu tunastahili sana au kwa sababu ya juhudi zetu, bali ni bahati tu. Kazi yetu hapa duniani bado haijakamilika, hivyo leo tuna nafasi nyingine (more…)
“The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and the rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The third inquires into the proper meaning of words, and their (more…)
“What, then, makes a person free from hindrance and self-determining? For wealth doesn’t, neither does high-office, state or kingdom—rather, something else must be found . . . in the case of living, it is the knowledge of how to live.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.62–64 Kuiona siku hii nyingine nzuri ya leo (more…)
“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.59 Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku nzuri na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumepata nafasi nyingine bora kwetu kwenda kuchukua hatua kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo ya tofauti (more…)
“People aren’t in awe of your sharp mind? So be it. But you have many other qualities you can’t claim to have been deprived of at birth. Display then those qualities in your own power: honesty, dignity, endurance, chastity, contentment, frugality, kindness, freedom, persistence, avoiding gossip, and magnanimity.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, (more…)
“So someone’s good at taking down an opponent, but that doesn’t make them more community-minded, or modest, or well-prepared for any circumstance, or more tolerant of the faults of others.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.52 Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumepata fursa nyingine ya kipekee (more…)
“Such behavior! People don’t want to praise their contemporaries whose lives they actually share, but hold great expectations for the praise of future generations—people they haven’t met or ever will! This is akin to being upset that past generations didn’t praise you.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.18 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa kupata (more…)
“You have proof in the extent of your wanderings that you never found the art of living anywhere—not in logic, nor in wealth, fame, or in any indulgence. Nowhere. Where is it then? In doing what human nature demands. How is a person to do this? By having principles be (more…)
“Since habit is such a powerful influence, and we’re used to pursuing our impulses to gain and avoid outside our own choice, we should set a contrary habit against that, and where appearances are really slippery, use the counterforce of our training.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.12.6 Ni jambo la kushukuru sana (more…)