Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The first and foremost rule for the wise conduct of life seems to me to be contained in a view to which Aristotle parenthetically refers in the _Nichomachean Ethics_:[1] [Greek: o phronimoz to alupon dioke e ou to aedu] or, as it may be rendered, _not pleasure, but freedom fro...
The mason employed on the building of a house may be quite ignorant of its general design; or at any rate, he may not keep it constantly in mind. So it is with man: in working t...
3. Chapter 3In making his way through life, a man will find it useful to be ready and able to do two things: to look ahead and to overlook: the one will protect him from loss and injury, th...
5. Chapter 5There is a very fine saying of Voltaire's to the effect that every age of life has its own peculiar mental character, and that a man will feel completely unhappy if his mind is...
4. Chapter 4However varied the forms that human destiny may take, the same elements are always present; and so life is everywhere much of a piece, whether it passed in the cottage or in the...
1. Chapter 1The first and foremost rule for the wise conduct of life seems to me to be contained in a view to which Aristotle parenthetically refers in the _Nichomachean Ethics_:[1] [Greek:...