A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
Zen, the Reason of Unreason; The Wisdom of Confucius; the Torah; the Holy Bible; Tao, to Know and Not Be Knowing; The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation; As a Man Thinketh; The Essential Gandhi; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; the Book of Mormon; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius; and the Upanishads.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
La gloriole occupe-t-elle ton esprit? Détourne les yeux sur la rapidité avec laquelle tout s'oublie, l'abîme de l'éternité infinie dans les deux sens, la vanité de l'écho que l'on peut avoir, comment ceux qui ont l'air d'applaudir changent vite d'avis et n'ont aucun discernement, et l'étroitesse de l'espace dans lequel la renommée se limite. Toute
... See morePierre Hadot • La Citadelle intérieure : Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Essais) (French Edition)
Why don’t you reflect, then, that for man the source of all evils, and of his meanness of spirit and cowardice, is not death itself, but rather the fear of death? It is to confront this that you must train yourself, [39] and it is towards that end that all your reasonings, all your studies, and all your readings should be directed, and then you’ll
... See moreEpictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
“Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible—by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION