“Make sure you’re not made ‘Emperor,’ avoid that imperial stain. It can happen to you, so keep yourself simple, good, pure, saintly, plain, a friend of justice, god-fearing, gracious, affectionate, and strong for your proper work. Fight to remain the person that philosophy wished to make you. Revere the gods, (more…)
“Circumstances are what deceive us—you must be discerning in them. We embrace evil before good. We desire the opposite of what we once desired. Our prayers are at war with our prayers, our plans with our plans.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 45.6 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya (more…)
“Drama, combat, terror, numbness, and subservience—every day these things wipe out your sacred principles, whenever your mind entertains them uncritically or lets them slip in.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.9 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni nafasi nzuri sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza (more…)
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.16 Ni siku mpya ya mwezi mpya katika mwaka wetu huu mzuri wa mafanikio. Tushukuru kwa nafasi hii nyingine ya uhai na tukaitendee vyema ili (more…)
“Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is unable to do anything else.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.17 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo, Ni nafasi nzuri sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Kwa msingi wetu wa (more…)
“Hurry to your own ruling reason, to the reason of the Whole, and to your neighbor’s. To your own mind to make it just; to the mind of the Whole to remember your place in it; and to your neighbor’s mind to learn whether it’s ignorant or of sound knowledge—while (more…)
“If you should ever turn your will to things outside your control in order to impress someone, be sure that you have wrecked your whole purpose in life. Be content, then, to be a philosopher in all that you do, and if you wish also to be seen as one, (more…)
“Life without a design is erratic. As soon as one is in place, principles become necessary. I think you’ll concede that nothing is more shameful than uncertain and wavering conduct, and beating a cowardly retreat. This will happen in all our affairs unless we remove the faults that seize and (more…)
“Diogenes of Sinope said we sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 6.2.35b Ni siki nyingine mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Ni nafasi bora kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora (more…)
“How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.33 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni (more…)