He who regularly lowers himself to the level of his companions for the sake of their acceptance is likely to underestimate the damage to his height. He will not be able to elevate them, but they can easily bring him down.
Category: Aphorisms and Observations
Suicide as Premature Jailbreak
Man up, and serve your time in the penal colony of the world. You'll die soon enough.
The Lazy, the Ambitious, and the Wise
The lazy do not work. The ambitious work hard — but for their own enhancement and advancement. The sage works, but without ambition, with detachment from the fruits of action.
Be Satisfied
Be satisfied with what you have, but not via the comparative thought, "I have more than them."
People Are What They Are
If the universe accepts them, why shouldn't I?
Happiness
The happy are those who do not allow themselves to be much affected, and certainly not disturbed, by the judgments and expectations of others. How much validation by others do you need? The less you need, the more mature you are.
‘Liberals,’ Graffiti, and Art
A 'liberal' is someone who has no problem with the defacing of public and private property with graffiti, which he considers 'art,' while holding that true art is 'racist.'
Money, Happiness, and Conditiones Sine Quibus Non
Money can't buy happiness. What it can buy are the conditions without which happiness is impossible.
Thus spoke the Sage of the Superstitions.
Love and Money
Don't say that money is the root of all evil. That's just silly. Say something that is true:
The inordinate love of money is the root of SOME evils.
Point proven in Radix Omnium Malorum.
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Addendum (7/17). Claude Boisson sends the following:
As you already know, your interpretation is exactly that of some careful Greek scholars for the sentence in 1 Timothy 6:10
All Deaths Matter!
Not just those counted as Covid-19 deaths.
(Point of logic: if an F is counted as a G, it does not follow that the F in question is a G.)
Memo to Leftists
Erase history and you won't be able to learn from it, including the dire consequences of erasing it.
Narrative Coherence is not Enough
There is a logical gap between coherence and truth.
Memorial Relaxation
It is better to relax one's grip on the past than to let it go entirely.
Ruminating on the Bone of Existence
Imagine chewing on something never consumed but always nutritious, even if sometimes bitter.
Albert Camus: He’s a Rebel!
You'll enjoy it. If you don't, you are not MavPhil material.
Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, tr. A. Bower, Vintage 1991, p. 15, French original published by Gallimard in 1951:
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Good advice if one can take it without false heroism and existentialist hyperventilation.