Desideri Erasmus, better known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, has a special appreciation for proverbs, as demonstrated by the fact that he amused himself by collecting and deciphering the meaning of 4,151 learned and popular sayings, the famous Adagis (1500-1515) derived from Greco-Latin sayings and maxims. The selection is preceded by the Prolegomena, a treatise on proverbs in which he offers his own definition. He also discusses their origin and provenance, their properties and characteristics, their relationship with other genres, their values, and their educational and wisdom usefulness. Treaty It has a final section in which it makes some recommendations on its proper textual use.

Sometimes, during the summer months, the hours are gray, and the sunsets cloud me, leading me to a mess that goes from me to the world, from the world to me. From the genocide in Gaza, with the images of cruelty, hunger, and massacre, to the concern for one's own life, to the uncomfortable question "what is the ethical way to live when you are a contemporary of an extermination?", but also to the small, almost inaudible questions that put my uniqueness into play, those that ignore my uniqueness; groping, without the promised compass. In the midst of this fog, I find the outstretched hand of books. I have opened the first page of The fragility of the world, by Joan-Carles Mèlich, and I have read silently that the world does not belong to us, that we must learn to live in provisionality and uncertainty.

The philosopher and orator Marc Tul·li Cicero, a key figure of Roman republicanism, sets out his conception of the universe and the immortality of the soul in Book VI of The Republic through a revelatory dream, the dream of Scipio, the protagonist of the philosophical dialogue. Scipio's full name is Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, Africanus Minor, and he was a prominent Roman politician and military man of the 2nd century BC. virtuous, just, and successful, and exemplary in his commitment to the common good. Philosophical and cosmological

Cicero introduces the story of the dream as a kind of philosophical and cosmological epilogue, an appendix to his political philosophy, inspired by Plato's myth of Er, in order to convey the idea that good government and virtuous conduct oriented towards the common good have the great reward of enjoying eternal life.

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