Extrait:A plus forte raison, chacun de nous, dans sa Sphère étroite, en est - il là; et c'est une étude équitable et utile que de consulter, avec un respect qui n'enlève rien à l'indépendance, des prédécesseurs qui ont fourni sûrement la carrière que nous avons à parcourir ainsi qu'eux, au risque de périls semblables, et dans l'espoir des mêmes triomphes. Le combat de la vie, comme disait Socrate, il y a plus de deux mille ans, est le plus beau et le plus difficile des combats. Socrate en est sorti vainqueur, nous savons à quel prix; et il peut à jamais en instruire d'autres à tenter, et à remporter peut-être, sur ses traces, d'aussi nobles victoires.

Pensées de Marc-Auréle

This book is about my experiences in the London Ambulance Service. I joined the Patient Transport Service in July 1989 and left after 20 years of service, in 2009. I then moved to Devon and worked in the South Western Ambulance Service, in their control room for three years, before retiring. This book is something I felt I had to do as it was always in the back of my mind. Not for fame or fortune, (fat chance) it's just a story of my experiences that I felt had to be told. My book is about some of the calls that I attended, and include: the elderly, murder, hangings, mental illness, fires and other situations, as well as my time with the Patient Transport Service. I hope you enjoy this small insight into a very satisfying and rewarding job - an immensely important job in our society as are the other emergency services. I moved away from my busy Lavender Hill station in 2002. Therefore, all the emergency calls I attended, all take place during the period I worked there, and at my first station, and other stations where I worked overtime. All the calls take place in London. My book is not indicative of the majority of staff within this service. As with every organisation, there will always be bad apples - and those bad apples can infect the good ones. My book has and each chapter is preceded with a Tanka[1] and/or other poem, a sketch or an illustration. I am very different to other people in that I am an I. N. F. J. and also have something called Synaesthesia. Some of my stories are told with the benefit of hindsight, and what was discovered, and heard at coroner's court, and my being an I. N. F. J.. My senses are so acute that I can absorb their energy, (good and bad) hear their thoughts, and feel their feelings, its awful most of the time, as most people are very unhappy, and have many problems. It's almost comparable to the reading of people's minds, but not quite. Consequently, I go to quiet places to shop, and at the quietest times. I also tend to be alone most of the time, sit in a park, or a beach, so that I can recharge myself. I also have synaesthesia, which has several forms. Its basic definition is the production of a sense impression, relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense, or part of the body. I will add a snippet of a poem, that can best describe what I have always been like. It's called "Life changes". Life changesI have always been susceptible to odd things, Strange phenomena, Since I was little I knew what was to be saidlook at someone and know them, know their life, I remember, I predicted over 12 plane crashes, Between the ages of 23 - 40 "it" disappeared, At some point in the ambulance service "it" reappeared, I knew things I shouldn't know, I could "feel" people's pain, Their grief, their sorrow, I knew when they hurt, and gave them comfort, And they knew, I knew.

Blue Light and Butterflies

«On sent en soi-même un plaisir secret lorsqu'on parle de cet empereur ; on ne peut lire sa vie sans une espèce d'attendrissement ; tel est l'effet qu'elle produit qu'on a meilleure opinion de soi-même, parce qu'on a meilleure opinion des hommes.» Montesquieu

Pensées pour moi-même: suivi de Manuel d'Épictète

Ce dialogue de Marc-Aurèle avec lui-même révèle un homme qui doute et qui recherche la paix intérieure.

Pensées: Livres VII-XII

Though professing philosophy as his guide in life and following her rule, Marcus Aurelus makes no pretence to learning or wisdom for himself.

"I have learned from my grandfather Verus : the lessons of noble character and even temper.

From my father's reputation and my memory of him: modesty and manliness.

From my mother: piety and bountifulness, to keep myself not only from doing evil but even from dwelling on evil thoughts, simplicity too in diet and to be far removed from the ways of the rich.

From my mother's grandfather: not to have attended public schools but enjoyed good teachers at home, and to have learned the lesson that on things like these it is a duty to spend liberally.

From my tutor: not to become a partisan of the Green jacket or the Blue in the races, nor of Thracian or Samnite gladiators; to bear pain and be content with little; to work with my own hands, to mind my own business, and to be slow to listen to slander."

Meditation of an Emperor - The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius

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Sun Tzu. The Art of War

Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching

Plato. The Republic

Aristotle. The Athenian Constitution 

Marcus Aurelius. Meditations

Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince

Thomas More. Utopia

Tommaso Campanella. The City of the Sun

Francis Bacon. The New Atlantis

Thomas Paine. Common Sense

Richard Henry Lee. Lee Resolution

Thomas Jefferson. Declaration of Independence

James Madison.

- Virginia Plan

- Constitution of the United States

- Bill of Rights

- Northwest Ordinance

George Washington. President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech

Great Historical Documents of the United States:

- Federal Judiciary Act

- Marbury v. Madison

- Articles of Confederation

- Treaty of Alliance with France

- Treaty of Paris

John Stuart Mil. Utilitarianism

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto

Vladimir Lenin:

- The State and Revolution

- The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

- Vladimir Lenin To the Citizens of Russia!

- Vladimir Lenin To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants!

- Report on Peace

- Report on Land

- Decree on Abolishment of Capital Punishment

- Decree on Transfer of Power to the Soviets

- Decree on Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Government

- Decree on Elections for the Constituent Assembly

- Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers

- Decree on Transfer of Food Control to Municipalities

- Decree on an Eight-Hour Working Day

- Decree on the Right to Issue Laws

- Resolution on the Right of Sovnarkom to Issue Decrees

- Decree on Social Insurance

- Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia

- Decree on Organization of Volost Land Committees

- Decree on Transfer of Power and the Means of Production to the Toilers

- Decree Proclaiming Advertising a State Monopoly

- Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks

- Decree on Workers' Control

- Resolution on Relation of the Central Executive Committee to the Sovnarkom

- Decree on the Right to Call for Re-Elections

- Decree on Establishment of the Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution

- V. I. Lenin Note To F. E. Dzerzhinsky with a Draft of A Decree On Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries And Saboteurs

Rosa Luxemburg. Reform or Revolution

Peter Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread

Emma Goldman. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

Leon Trotsky. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

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We live in an era rife with cultural conflict. The 21st century is by no means free of wars, terrorism, riots, famine, nor epidemics. We may attempt to solve the challenges of our times by uniting the humanistic disciplines of philosophy, science, and technology. Our modern reality requires a fundamental understanding of the problems beleaguering our existence. Science and literature are key tools for gaining this insight. The wisdom accumulated throughout the centuries by scientists, philosophers, and writers is a solid foundation on which modern man can build the future. Our ability to learn from those who have come before is precisely what led Protagoras to declare that "Man is the measure of all things."

Contents:

Poetics by Aristotle

The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle

On Life and Death by Aristotle

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

The Eumenides by Aeschylus

The Choephori by Aeschylus

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Medea by Euripides

The Works and Days by Hesiod

The Theogony by Hesiod

The Shield of Heracles by Hesiod

The Odyssey by Homer

The Apology of Socrates by Plato

Charmides by Plato

Crito by Plato

Euthyphro by Plato

Ion by Plato

Laches by Plato

Lysis by Plato

Menexenus by Plato

The Republic by Plato

The Allegory of the Cave by Plato

Symposium by Plato

Meno by Plato

Phaedo by Plato

Critias by Plato

The Complete Poems by Sappho

Antigone by Sophocles

25 + The Big Book of Ancient Classics - The Odyssey by Homer, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Republic by Plato, Poetics by Aristotle and others

Although I have been writing poetry since the early 1970's, this is the first time I have put together most of my poems, and published them. There are three rap songs, and two folk songs included. A couple of Sestinas and an Ekphrasis, with many Tanka's, and poems which I have used from my first book called, BLUE LIGHTS AND BUTTERFLIES. My book includes sketches and photos; which I hope you will enjoy. My poems include a tribute to the 25 young boys from Whitechapel who fought in the first world war, all from the same road, and who, never came home, the youngest being 12. There is a poem about Stillbirth, rape and murder, veganism, and the environment. Tribute poems for my favourite artists, using their song titles that span decades. The tribute poems are for Bob Dylan, with reference to Emmett Till, Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, Neil Young, and the incomparable Van Morisson. In all, a very mixed bag of creative and imaginative works: Marcus is an Empath of the highest order, and a Synthete, one who has Synaesthesia. I loved his first book, Blue Lights and Butterflies, its real life, honest, and raw, not everyone will be able to take the journey into his experiences. I love this book too, as its honest, and sometimes gut wrenching, yet all true. He used to perform in poetry clubs, and once when he was reading a poem, about the death of his dog, three ladies ran out of the venue in floods of tears. I hope people read his offerings.                                  Esmeralda K.

Mediation, Thoughts, and Tragedies.

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Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcuss insights and advice--on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others--have made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. For anyone who struggles to reconcile the demands of leadership with a concern for personal integrity and spiritual well-being, the Meditations remains as relevant now as it was two thousand years ago.
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