Category: Personal Excellence

Successful empires are those that know how to assimilate the best of the civilizations they subjugate The Romans constituted a civilization of ingenious military men or engineers and soldiers who absorbed the knowledge gleaned here and there as they conquered. They knew how to integrate urbanism, social organization, Etruscan furnaristic rites (and so many other things, in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apports_des_%C3%89trusques_aux_Romains), the…

What is divine when we contemplate a landscape is that we admire at the same time a nature that is not aware of itself. The same is true for a talent that expresses itself without the awareness of this beauty interfering in the subject enjoying this gift. Vanity appears when too many praises are pronounced against us and we end…

Imagine that you have been plunged into the past and forgotten your future glories. You will be an eminent scientist, an artist who will be remembered by posterity, or a Nobel Prize winner, but you don’t know it. You have come back in time to enjoy the sweetness of an incognito life. At least that is what providence offers you…

The actions we take either strengthen or erode the brilliance of our being. Without realizing it, we compromise the most intimate dimension of who we are. Financial capital works in such a way that it prospers over time if we know how to invest it well. It forms accumulated interests that allow this money mass to work by itself. The…

We all aspire to goodness, since it allows us to improve our self-esteem and consequently to be happy. However, in spite of this common aspiration, we notice that this purpose is not really realized by all. Striving for good without totally reaching it is rather reasonable since it is an absolute, nevertheless many go astray in their search. How is…

Moral, philosophical or religious rules that may seem rigid at first sight have a purpose: to put us on the right track. The requirement to follow conventions that sometimes seem anachronistic, archaic or even simply absurd, is just as important. The idea is to transform the being through obedience to a framework. It is not so much the achievement of…