“I can’t call a person a hard worker just because I hear they read and write, even if working at it all night. Until I know what a person is working for, I can’t deem them industrious. . . . I can if the end they work for is their (more…)
“Work nourishes noble minds.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 31.5 Ni furaha iliyoje mimi na wewe rafiki yangu kuiona siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Hatuna cha kusema bali shukrani kwa nafasi hii nyingine ya kipekee sana kwetu. Siyo kila aliyeweka mipango yake jana kwa ajili ya leo amepata nafasi hii (more…)
“The first thing to do—don’t get worked up. For everything happens according to the nature of all things, and in a short time you’ll be nobody and nowhere, even as the great emperors Hadrian and Augustus are now. The next thing to do—consider carefully the task at hand for what (more…)
“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.” —ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.26 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana tuliyoiona leo. Ni nafasi bora sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Kwa (more…)
“I’m constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self. . . . How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us and how little to our (more…)
“Joy for human beings lies in proper human work. And proper human work consists in: acts of kindness to other human beings, disdain for the stirrings of the senses, identifying trustworthy impressions, and contemplating the natural order and all that happens in keeping with it.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.26 Ni (more…)
“You say, good fortune used to meet you at every corner. But the fortunate person is the one who gives themselves a good fortune. And good fortunes are a well-tuned soul, good impulses and good actions.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.36 Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku nzuri na ya kipekee sana (more…)
“Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 49.10b Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku nzuri na ya kipekee sana (more…)
“You get what you deserve. Instead of being a good person today, you choose instead to become one tomorrow.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.22 “I don’t complain about the lack of time . . . what little I have will go far enough. Today—this day—will achieve what no tomorrow will fail (more…)
“But what is philosophy? Doesn’t it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don’t you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took (more…)