The Greek Dark Ages

By the middle ages, when the comma, the full stop and the colon had become common, the question mark and the exclamation mark came in the picture, as it became clear that the spoken word was easily understood, but the written word needed emotional emphasis, clarity and intonation to be understood...

• This word came from Old English where it meant happy or fortunate. As time passed it then got associated with "piousness" and "holiness" because the innocent are easily taken advantage of and the word "silly" came to signal a person who they deemed weak or helpless.
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• In 56 CE, the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote a comprehensive book on gratitude, called On Benefits.
• The gifted philosopher treats the feeling of gratitude as a virtue that one needs to cultivate and implement socially.
• In his book, gratitude is defined as a glue t...