“A good isn’t increased by the addition of time, but if one is wise for even a moment, they will be no less happy than the person who exercises virtue for all time and happily passes their life in it.” —CHRYSIPPUS Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku nzuri na ya kipekee (more…)
“If you’ve seen the present, you’ve seen all things, from time immemorial into all of eternity. For everything that happens is related and the same.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.37 Tushukuru na kufurahi kwa kuiona siku hii mpya. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili (more…)
“For any challenge we should hold three thoughts at our command: ‘Lead on God and Destiny, To that Goal fixed for me long ago. I will follow and not stumble; even if my will is weak I will soldier on.’” —CLEANTHES Tumepata bahati nyingine nzuri ya kuiona siku hii mpya (more…)
“Our rational nature moves freely forward in its impressions when it: 1) accepts nothing false or uncertain; 2) directs its impulses only to acts for the common good; 3) limits its desires and aversions only to what’s in its own power; 4) embraces everything nature assigns it.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, (more…)
“When philosophy is wielded with arrogance and stubbornly, it is the cause for the ruin of many. Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 103.4b–5a Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa nafasi hii nyingine nzuri tuliyoiona leo. (more…)
“Hecato says, ‘cease to hope and you will cease to fear.’ . . . The primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.7b–8 Kuiona siku hii nyingine mpya, siku nzuri na ya (more…)
“Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept by us and carried away. For substance is like a river’s unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that almost nothing at all stands still.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.23 (more…)
“He was sent to prison. But the observation ‘he has suffered evil,’ is an addition coming from you.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.8.5b–6a Ni jambo la kushukuru sana kwa mimi na wewe kuipata zawadi hii nyingine nzuri ambayo ni kuiona siku hii ya leo. Siyo kwa sababu tunastahili sana, au kwa sababu (more…)
“Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.9 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana kwetu. Tumeipata nafasi bora na ya kipekee kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Msingi wetu (more…)
“If we judge as good and evil only the things in the power of our own choice, then there is no room left for blaming gods or being hostile to others.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.41 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii mpya ambayo tumekuwa nayo leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya (more…)