“Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn’t your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.15 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine mpya tuliyoiona leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu (more…)
“If you lay violent hands on me, you’ll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo.” —ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.24 Ni jambo la kushukuru sana kwetu sisi ambao tumepata nafasi ya kuiona siku hii ya leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya (more…)
“Nothing can satisfy greed, but even a small measure satisfies nature. So it is that the poverty of an exile brings no misfortune, for no place of exile is so barren as not to produce ample support for a person.” —SENECA, ON CONSOLATION TO HELVIA, 10.11b Ni siku mpya, siku (more…)
“How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that governs all the rest—the ability to make the right use of external appearances—and that they didn’t put anything else under our control. Was this simply because they weren’t willing to give us more? I think (more…)
“For even peace itself will supply more reason for worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked—once it gets in the habit of blind panic, it can’t provide for its own safety. For it doesn’t really avoid danger, it just runs away. Yet (more…)
“Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4 Tunapaswa kushukuru sana kwa nafasi hii nyingine nzuri tuliyoiona leo, Siyo wote waliopanga kuiona siku hii wameweza kuiona, tuna bahati ya kipekee na tunapaswa kuitumia kwa kufanya yale yaliyo sahihi kwetu na kwa wengine. Msingi wetu (more…)
“Show me someone who isn’t a slave! One is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to power, and all are slaves to fear. I could name a former Consul who is a slave to a little old woman, a millionaire who is the slave of the cleaning woman. (more…)
“Being unexpected adds to the weight of a disaster, and being a surprise has never failed to increase a person’s pain. For that reason, nothing should ever be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent out in advance to all things and we shouldn’t just consider the normal course (more…)
“Remember that your ruling reason becomes unconquerable when it rallies and relies on itself, so that it won’t do anything contrary to its own will, even if its position is irrational. How much more unconquerable if its judgments are careful and made rationally? Therefore, the mind freed from passions is (more…)
“Difficulties show a person’s character. So when a challenge confronts you, remember that God is matching you with a younger sparring partner, as would a physical trainer. Why? Becoming an Olympian takes sweat! I think no one has a better challenge than yours, if only you would use it like (more…)