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Luís Ortet
Luís Ortet is the founder and managing director of Delta Publish Ltd (Delta Edições Lda). He was the editor-in-chief of Macau magazine (Portuguese language edition).
His main interests include Chinese culture, the Chinese language and etymology, and the history of thought, especially divination, as viewed by both ancient China and classical Greece.
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Jun 3, 2024
WHO WAS G. W. LEIBNIZ?
A relatively little-known facet of Leibniz’s intellectual activity was his deep interest in Chinese civilisation and culture, based on the earliest Chinese philosophical writings, which he accessed through Jesuit missionaries.
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Nov 5, 2023
O FORTUNA
O Fortune like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing, ever waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice. [in the original Latin: O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis semper crescis aut decrescis vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, … Continued
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Jan 2, 2023
W. S. Maugham: A Mysterious Epigraph
Sometime in the 1930’s, renown English writer Somerset Maugham wrote a mysterious epigraph. The short text was written as an opening for John O’Hara’s most famous work, published as Appointment in Samarra.