Compare yourself to your self yesterday
So, about that one sentence of advice: Don't feel behind. Two Roman historians recorded that when Julius Caesar was a young man he saw a statue of Alexander the Great in Spain and broke down in tears. "Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable," he supposedly said.
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CELAL ŞENGÖR'ÜN TAVSİYE ETTİĞİ BELGESELLER
•Planet Dinosaur (2011)
•Genius (2017)
•Alexander the Great (2014)
•Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (211)
•David Frederick Attenborough (Bütün Belgeselleri) •Antiques Roadshow (1979)
•Haroun Tazieff: Le volcan interdit (1966)
•Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
Nakledildiğine göre Fatih,
Özellikle kendisi için bir model olarak gördüğü Büyük İskender'in hayat hikayesine ve eski Yunan tarihine büyük ilgi duymaktaydı. Her gün Flavius Arrianus'un Anabasis of Alexander the Great adlı eserini okutturmaktaydı.
Meeting a woman on the beach, in the park, by the side of a river, he pretends to be Alexander the Great, walks like a lion. And within two days the same fellow is reduced to a rat.
Sanat Felsefesi, Estetik, Schiller, Ressamlar
_Alçak bir takım ihtiyaçların tatmini için kullanılan yetenek, güya artistik bir şekil verir kirli bir muhtevaya. Sanatçı, zayıflık ve kötülükle insanları aldatır ve kendilerini aldatmalarını kolaylaştırır. Sahtekârdır çünkü manevî susuzluklarını temiz bir kaynaktan doyurduklarına ikna eder onları. Sanat’ın nimetinden mahrum kalınan böyle zamanlar
Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Büyük İskender'i kendisine bir rol model olarak görüyor ve Yunan tarihine oldukça ilgi duyuyordu. Onun her gün Anabasis of Alexander the Great adlı eseri okutturduğu söylenmektedir..
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"Eski Yunan tarihine ve özellikle kendisi için bir model olarak gördüğü Büyük İskender'in hayatına oldukça meraklı olan Fatih; her gün Flavius Arrianus'un Anabasis of Alexander the Great adlı eserini okutturuyordu."
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Robinson Crusoe
The wild man turned out to be Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who had been marooned on these desolate sea isles four years earlier. The expedition’s pilot, Dampier, recognized Selkirk as an old shipmate, and Rogers made the former castaway an officer of the Duke . Selkirk’s adventures while stranded on Juan Fernandez later served as the inspiration for Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
Selkirk was advised, upon his return to England, to consult Daniel Defoe in order to arrange for publication of his story. This Selkirk did, turning over to Defoe written notes of his years as a castaway. But instead of writing a book about Selkirk, Defoe converted Selkirk’s rough material into the fictional Robinson Crusoe , published in 1720 and a great success. Selkirk was thus deprived of the remuneration he might have realized if his story had been published as his memoirs.
"The mind of man is the great work of God, and the proper object of human science. To neglect the improvement of it is to neglect the greatest gift of God to man, and to disregard the noblest faculty of the human frame."
gold coins and silver coins circulated for several centuries under a dual standard. Gold gained in importance at the time of Alexander the Great, under the stimulus furnished by the large amount of gold produced in his Pangean mines.
Later in life, Napoleon urged his junior officers 'to read and re-read the campaigns of Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolfus, Prince Eugene and Frederick the Great. This is the only way to become a great captain.
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Giacomo de’ Languschi'nin Fatih Sultan Mehmet'i tasviri
The sovereign, the Grand Turk Mehmet Bey, is a youth of twenty-six, well built, of large rather than medium stature, expert at arms, of aspect more frightening than venerable, laughing seldom, full of circumspection, endowed with great generosity, obstinate in pursuing his plans, bold in all undertakings, as eager for fame as Alexander of Macedonia. Daily he has Roman and other historical works read to him by a companion called Ciriaco of Ancona and another Italian … He speaks three languages, Turkish, Greek and Slavic. He is at great pains to learn the geography of Italy and to inform himself … where the seat of the pope is and that of the emperor, and how many kingdoms there are in Europe. He possesses a map of Europe with the countries and provinces. He learns of nothing with greater interest and enthusiasm than the geography of the world and military affairs; he burns with desire to dominate; he is a shrewd investigator of conditions. It is with such a man that we Christians have to deal. Today, he says, the times have changed, and declares that he will advance from east to west as in former times the westerners advanced into the Orient. There must, he says, be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little, or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd;
Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Suddenly he seemed aware of Hephaistion as a presence separate from his own. He sat down by him, and laid a hand on his knee. "He gave me leave to hear, if I vowed not to disclose it. It is the same with all the Mysteries. Anything of mine I would share with you, but this belongs to the god."
No, to the witch, thought Hephaistion; that condition was made for me. But he took Alexander's hand in both of his, and pressed it reassuringly. It felt dry and warm; it rested between his in trust, but sought no consolation.
"You must obey the god, then," said Hephaistion; and thought, not for the first time, nor for the last, Who knows? Aristotle himself never denied that such things have been; he would not be so impious. If it was ever possible, it must be so still. But it is a great burden for the mortal part to carry. He clasped more tightly the hand he held.
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Alexander came swiftly over, struck with remorse at having forgotten. "In our souls," he said, "we'll be more than ever united, winning eternal fame. Son of Menitios, great one, you who delight my heart." He smiled deeply into Hephaistion's eyes, which faithfully smiled back. "Love is the true food of the soul. But the soul eats to live, like the body, it mustn't live to eat."
"No," said Hephaistion. What he lived for was his own business, part of which was that Alexander should not be burdened with it.
"The soul must live to do."
Hephaistion put aside the sword, took up the dagger with its dolphin hilts and agate pommel, and agreed that this was so.
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