Recent Thoughts

None shall go unburied

I ask no man to perform the last rites for me; I entrust my remains to none. Nature has made provision that none shall go unburied.

Luxuries call for labour

The things that are indispensable require no elaborate pains for their acquisition; it is only the luxuries that call for labour.

Why feel sorrow

… the wise man will say just what a Marcus Cato would say, after reviewing his past life: “The whole race of man, both that which is and that which is to ...

Supreme Good is that which is honorable

… what good is there in breaking it up into tiny bits, when you can say: the Supreme Good is that which is honorable? Besides (and you may be still more s...

Pain

He who dies just because he is in pain is a weakling, a coward; but he who lives merely to brave out this pain, is a fool.