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Socrates on Integrity (Sócrates sobre la integridad)

Quote of the Week

Socrates said:

… a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong – acting the part of a good man or a bad.

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El poder y el amor (Power and Love)

La cita de la semana / Quote of the Week:

El poder – como el amor – es de doble filo: se ejerce y se padece.

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The Dutch & the Spanish (Los holandeses y los españoles)

Quote of the Week / La cita de la semana:

There exist certain similarities between the Spanish and the Dutch character.

The landscape of La Mancha dotted with windmills is no more rigorously divided into heaven and earth than the Dutch polder.

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Anniversary

Quote of the Week:

I brought my life this far
Bitter groove in the sand that will be effaced

(Odysseas Elytis: Anniversary)

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Socrates and the Flute

Quote of the Week:

While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune of the flute.
“What will be the use of that?” he was asked.

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Discutir con tontos (Arguing with Fools)

La cita de la semana / Quote of the Week:

Discutir con tontos supone tener que bajar al nivel de los tontos y ahí son imbatibles.

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The Desert vs the City

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For the desert isn’t where we think it is. The Sahara is livelier than a capital, and the most crowded of cities becomes a desert if the essential poles of life are demagnetized.

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