Religion & Spirituality
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Seneca

There may be pleasure in the memory Of even these events one day.* He should put his whole heart into the fight against them. If he gives way before them ...
( Category: Letters April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Cicero

Thus nature favours nothing solitary, but always inclines towards some kind of assistance, which the dearest friend provides in the most agreeable way. Yet even though this same nature communicates ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Seneca

On the Shortness of Life [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] [1] Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Plato

23. The process of transformation further explained. The main bulk of each body tends to collect in a particular region. From all we have so far said about the four ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Orchard, Andy [Orchard, Andy]

2. ‘Why should you visit from Valland, scatter-brain, my dwelling? You have, gold-goddess, if you want to know, gentle lady, washed a man’s blood from your hands.’ Then Brynhild said: ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1981-09-16 | Author:Gantz, Jeffrey [Gantz, Jeffrey]

The Boyhood Deeds of Cú Chulaind ‘In truth, he was reared by his mother and his father at Airgdech in Mag Muirthemni,’ said Fergus. ‘There he was told of the ...
( Category: Family Saga April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1987-04-29 | Author:Maxwell Staniforth and Andrew Louth

The Martyrdom of Polycarp From the colony of God’s Church1 at SMYRNA, To the colony of God’s Church at PHILOMELIUM,2 and to all colonies of the Holy Catholic Church everywhere. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Venerable, Bede the [Venerable, Bede the]

Chapter 30: During a plague the East Saxons lapse into idolatry, but are quickly recalled from their errors by Bishop Jaruman [a.d. 665] At the same time, the kings Sighere ...
( Category: Christianity April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

48 ‘A cavalier arrived, as it befell, From the Byzantine court, and in his train There rode a lady who, as I heard tell, Drew the admiring glances of all ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Avila, Teresa of [Avila, Teresa of]

Chapter 24 She continues the same subject and tells how her soul went on improving, once she had begun to obey; also how little use it was for her to ...
( Category: Saints April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-06-24 | Author:Aquinas, Thomas [Aquinas, Thomas]

17. Definitions of Soul. On Aristotle’s De anima, 2, 1–3(1268) It was while he was still teaching at Santa Sabina in Rome that Thomas Aquinas wrote his commentary on Aristotle’s ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-04 | Author:Bede

CHAPTER 35 Wilfrid encourages his brethren WILFRID, God’s beloved, addressed his comrades thus: ‘Keep in mind and recall to the brethren those days of old, how we read in the ...
( Category: Saints April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Psellus, Michael [Psellus, Michael]

THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE It was a marvel of beauty that Nature brought into being in the person of this man, so justly proportioned, so harmoniously fashioned, that there was ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-11-26 | Author:Augustine

( Category: Saints April 19,2020 )