Online Dating: How it Deceived Man & Woman
The other day, I was thinking about online dating. How it has completely transfigured the game. How it…
Tomorrow Never Comes
The largest lie one tells himself; ‘I’ll do it tomorrow.’ Since the present isn’t appropriate and one’s duties…
Of Man & His Imbalance
Man and his Finery “wise, lord of himself, not terrified of death, poverty or shackles? Is he a…
The Value of Moderation
Our touch carries disease, because the beautifully good things that are bestowed on us are often debauched by…
Enlightened Defiance
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” Friedrich Nietzsche It’s been more…
The Exceptional Man
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try…
On Obeying Yourself
As many an ordinary man, who carefully attempts to fashion his shape according to the greater, who are out of shape, hardly worthy of emulation. Remember why, as he picks out a sense of estrangement from the degenerate crowd. It is good to be upstanding, but bad when you don't know that for yourself.
On Learning and Wisdom
Agesilaus was once asked what children ought to be taught, he replied, ‘What they should do when they are grown up.’ Further, when he encouraged Xenophon to have his boys raised in Sparta, it was neither for rhetoric nor argumentation, but to learn the most worthy discipline there is: ‘how to obey and how to command.’
Sense and Responsibility
Courageous deeds bring out the worth of man: the battleground being the expanding landscape, where safety is off duty and menace ever nearby.
On Persistence
If truth be told, is there a more betraying mark of singular character than your ability to show determination with things that clamour for courage and tenacity when the longing to relent is exceptionally irresistible? That sensible proverb is ever pertinent, “Constancy is the mark of virtue.”
