by Benard Makaa | Jul 19, 2017 | Philosophy, Psychology
This post is literally lifted from the work of Derek Sivers, who has taken time to distill wisdom and insights from books, experience and research into directives. All credit goes to him. He was a circus clown, a musician, and made a company which he sold for $22...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 10, 2017 | Letters, Philosophy
This a series of some of Seneca’s Moral Letter to his Friend, Lucilius. While reading the letter in which you were lamenting the death of the philosopher Metronaxas if he might have, and indeed ought to have, lived longer, I missed the spirit of fairness which abounds...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 10, 2017 | Letters, Philosophy
This a series of some of Seneca’s Moral Letter to his Friend, Lucilius. If you are in good health and if you think yourself worthy of becoming at last your own master, I am glad. For the credit will be mine, if I can drag you from the floods in which you are being...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 10, 2017 | Letters, Philosophy
This a series of some of Seneca’s Moral Letter to his Friend, Lucilius. It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. License is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations—as if the Saturnalia...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 10, 2017 | Letters, Philosophy
This a series of some of Seneca’s Moral Letter to his Friend, Lucilius. I know that you have plenty of spirit; for even before you began to equip yourself with maxims which were wholesome and potent to overcome obstacles, you were taking pride in your contest with...
