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instances and examples of similar cases, and the actual nature of such a motive is to be explained as gently as possible, so that the circumstance which is the subject of the discussion may be explained away, and instead of being considered as a cruel and |
restrain us. but what if plutarch, besides several examples that he produces out of antiquity, tells us, he knows of certain knowledge, that in the time of domitian, the news of the battle lost by antony in germany was published at rome, many days' |
for we must obey her, and we are bound to consider that the best thing which is arranged in the most prudent manner. |
caesar often warned him to be less audacious in his talk, and as he continued to offend, forbade him his house. |
plaint, thence gathered his own doom; which understood not instant, but of future time, with joy and tidings fraught, to hell he now returned; and at the brink of chaos, near the foot of this new wonderous pontifice, unhoped met, who to meet him came, his |
i have been showing that they are right in admitting every man as a counsellor about this sort of virtue, as they are of opinion that every man is a partaker of it. |
invasion,-the phokians, i say, for these too were now actively twenty taking the side of the medes, not of their own will however, but by compulsion. |
jupiter, derived from ferire, to strike. |
for example every triad possesses the attributes number, odd, and prime in both senses, i.e. not only as possessing no divisors, but also as not being a sum of numbers. this, then, is precisely what triad is, viz. |
artemidorus, a cnidian, a teacher of greek logic, and by that means so far acquainted with brutus and his friends as to have got into the secret, brought caesar in a small written memorial, the heads of what he had to depose. |
can have no society nor security: and upon this is grounded that great law of nature, whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. |
man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. |
and if any man think that he will take counsel, but it shall be by pieces; asking counsel in one business, of one man, and in another business, of another man; it is well (that is to say, better, perhaps, than if he asked none at all); but he runneth two |
so, too, there are many senses in which a thing is said to be, but all refer to one starting-point; some things are said to be because they are substances, others because they are affections of substance, others because they are a process towards |
socrates: the degrees of good and evil vary with the degrees of pleasure and of pain? |
about the mossy trunk i wound me soon; for, high from ground, the branches would require thy utmost reach or adam's: round the tree all other beasts that saw, with like desire longing and envying stood, but could not reach. |
the other story implies that wine was given to punish us and make us mad; but we contend that wine is a balm and a cure; a spring of modesty in the soul, and of health and strength in the body. |
but, which is worse, this argument of universal consent, which is made use of to prove innate principles, seems to me a demonstration that there are none such: because there are none to which all mankind give an universal assent. |
one piece of property is thus made comparable with another, and may be made equivalent to a thing which is (in quality) wholly heterogeneous. it is thus treated in general as an abstract, universal thing or commodity. |
again, i have already pointed out, that temperance, sobriety, and chastity indicate rather a power than a passivity of the mind. |
as to the second point; should we not be less cuckolds, if we less feared to be so? according to the humour of women whom interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden: |
thereupon paetus dwelt on the memories of the luculli and pompeii, and of all that the caesars had done in the way of holding or giving away armenia, while vasaces declared that we had the mere shadow of possession and of bestowing, but the parthians, the |
follows, and those which cannot belong to it. but those to which it cannot belong need not be selected, because the negative statement implied above is convertible. |
so certain that they began to spare themselves a little in order not to be cut off in the moment of victory, thinking too that, as it was, they would be able in this way to subdue and capture the enemy. |
they set about removing the tables at which the wicked suitors had been dining, and took away the bread that was left, with the cups from which they had drunk. |
their own wives and children. on the succeeding day, a vast silence all around, desolate hills, the distant smoke of burning houses, and not a living soul descried by the scouts, displayed more amply the face of victory. |
money or not, for in such exchanges he will not be protected by law. |
existence towards the end of the th century b.one hundred. further proof of sun tzu's antiquity is furnished by the archaic or wholly obsolete meanings attaching to a number of the words he uses. |
others there be, who though they stand not upon retaliation, to require any, yet they think with themselves nevertheless, that such a one is their debtor, and they know as their word is what they have done. |
the one is ready even to sacrifice itself for the good of others, the other to plunge into peril provided it drags others with it. |
another ideal runs on before us, a strange, tempting ideal full of danger, to which we should not like to persuade any one, because we do not so readily acknowledge any one's right thereto: the ideal of a spirit who plays naively (that is to say |
chorus. (ant. two) and next, unhappy man, thou hast shed blood? |
realities, and possible smaller perceptions. every colour-for example, red-has a degree, which, be it ever so small, is never the smallest, and so is it always with heat, the momentum of weight, etc. |
now tell me of your ventures, but in brief; brief speech suffices for young maids like you. |
thus the law may indeed decree that there shall be privileges, but cannot confer them on anybody by name. |
fully acknowledge: but, as i admit all these advantages and as many more as you please, if only this state of yours were to come into existence, we need say no more about them; assuming then the existence of the state, let us now turn to the question of |
hence religion as such, and the state as such,-both as forms in which the principle exists-each contain the absolute truth: so that the truth, in its philosophic phase, is after all only in one of its forms. |
founded on the present circumstances of the fact, how far injuries from without are to be vindicated; and in both these to employ all the force of all the members, when there shall be need. |
for antony, seeing his influence reviving in the commonwealth, and knowing how closely he was connected with brutus, was ill-pleased to have him in the city. |
thus did he pray, and apollo heard his prayer. when they had done praying and sprinkling the barley-meal, they drew back the heads of the victims and killed and flayed them. |
we must discover, then, which is the best state of each of these, because that will be the excellence of each; and this again is relative to the work each has to do. four |
the liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power, but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth; nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact, according to the trust |
like the oriental or christian mystic, the philosopher is seeking to withdraw from impurities of sense, to leave the world and the things of the world, and to find his higher self. |
but seeing that we have nothing which we could here employ but the pure fundamental conceptions of all possible experience, among which of course nothing empirical can be admitted, we dare not, without injuring the unity of our system, anticipate general |
then wakeful palinurus rose, to spy the face of heav'n, and the nocturnal sky; and listen'd ev'ry breath of air to try; observes the stars, and notes their sliding course, the pleiads, hyads, and their wat'ry force; and both the bears is careful to |
to this ill affection abroad, the tribunes yet more contributed at home, invidiously accusing lucullus, as one who for empire and riches prolonged the war, holding, it might almost be said, under his sole power cilicia, asia, bithynia, paphlagonia, |
shall be the end? it is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but though |
for there lived at the same time as aristotle, a great and illustrious rhetorician, named isocrates, though we have not entirely discovered what his system was. |
on that one occasion the state forgot its slavery, and groaned aloud, and though men's minds were enslaved, as everything was kept under by fear, still the groans of the roman people were free. |
to be deceived by such unintelligible ways of speaking. |
lu te-ming (five hundred fifty-six hundred twenty five a.five hundred.) mentions the work, and enumerates the headings of the six sections so that the forgery cannot have been later than sui dynasty. |
also stood one hundred twenty one high, i think in the town at bubastis especially the earth was piled up. |
you strut along the streets, and look around you proudly, and barefoot many ills endure, and hold your head above us. |
but after that another greater fleet from athens was arrived, and that the samians were now shut up with a close leaguer on every side, pericles, taking with him sixty galleys, sailed out into the main sea, with the intention, as most authors give the |
for herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he has no desire for that of which he feels no want.' |
memory is to sense as dreaming is to waking; and like dreaming has a wayward and uncertain power of recalling impressions from the past. |
a great many of the athenians and allies were killed, although still more arms were taken than could be accounted for by the number of the dead, as some of those who were obliged to leap down from the cliffs without their shields escaped with their lives |
that against aristogiton, and that for the immunities, he spoke himself, at the request, as he says, of ctesippus, the son of chabrias, but, as some say, out of courtship to the young man's mother. |
for which reason, also, i am not angry with my condemners, or with my accusers; they have done me no harm, although they did not mean to do me any good; and for this i may gently blame them. |
you waste your pains: you want to do what is certain to be done. you say, "i do not wish necessarily to kill him, but to punish him by exile, or public disgrace, or loss of property." |
not that he had done anything himself which might occasion this defect, or was deprived of his sight by any outrage of fortune; it seems rather to have been some inbred and hereditary weakness that was founded in natural causes, which by length of time |
neque locupletibus ad sua vel tenenda vel recuperanda obsit invidia, praeterea, quibuscumque rebus vel belli vel domi poterunt, rem publicam augeant imperio, agris, vectigalibus. |
for it could not be the commandement of god that could oblige them; because god spake not to them immediately, but by the mediation of moses himself; and our saviour saith of himself, (john five. |
supposition. this syllogism differs from the preceding because the relations between the terms are reversed: before, the affirmative statement concerned b, now it concerns one hundred. |
it was wonderful, meantime, with what silence and devotion the multitude stood assembled in the forum in similar expectation and suspense, till auspicious birds appeared and passed on the right. |
and he is bound to give great attention to this point, not only what the effect would have been in reality, but still more what it would have been in the opinion of the man whom he is accusing. |
eight. thus say the scythians about themselves and about the region above them; but the hellenes who dwell about the pontus say as follows:-heracles driving the cattle of geryones came to this land, then desert, which the scythians now inhabit; and |
this state, so full of verdure, jollity, and vigour, made the consideration of sickness so formidable to me, that when i came to experience it, i found the attacks faint and easy in comparison with what i had apprehended. |
acts not voluntarily, because it did not rest with him to do or leave undone: or again, it is conceivable that the person struck may be his father, and he may know that it is a man, or even one of the present company, whom he is striking, but not know |
quod ni ita esset, numquam claros viros senatus vinctos three hundred sixty six hostibus dedidisset. |
thirdly, that if they do these things rightly, thou hast no reason to be grieved. but if not rightly, it must needs be that they do them against their wills, and through mere ignorance. |
forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. |
having said this, he sent the two men to messene with a herald from himself, offering the megalopolitans their city again, if they would forsake the achaean interest, and be on his side. |
a man who writes in this prezios style is like a person who dresses himself up to avoid being mistaken for or confounded with the mob; a danger which a gentleman , even in his worst clothes, does not run. |
socrates: dear crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the danger; and therefore we ought to consider whether i shall or shall not do as you say. |
a man may have a true opinion about a waggon, but then, and then only, has he knowledge of a waggon when he is able to enumerate the hundred planks of hesiod. |
(three) enthymemes depending on examples may be refuted in the same way as probabilities. |
whoever will justly consider, and with due proportion, of what kind of men and of what sort of actions the glory sustains itself in the records of history, will find that there are very few actions and very few persons of our times who can there pretend |
such will i show myself to you, faithful, modest, noble, free from perturbation. what, and immortal, too, except from old age, and from sickness? no, but dying as becomes a god, sickening as becomes a god. this power i possess; this i can do. |
the gauls at this time were besieging clusium, a tuscan city. the clusinians sent to the romans for succor desiring them to interpose with the barbarians by letters and ambassadors. |
never yet did a profounder world of insight reveal itself to daring travelers and adventurers, and the psychologist who thus "makes a sacrifice"--it is not the sacrifizio dell' intelletto, on the contrary!--will at least be entitled to demand in return |
the stronger overcomes the weaker, as the athenians have overcome the ceans, or the syracusans the locrians, who are, perhaps, the best governed state in that part of the world. |
small city, or that a regal government and a political one are the same, only that in the one a single person is continually at the head of public affairs; in the other, that each member of the state has in his turn a share in the government, and is at |
six by "men" in this and the following propositions, i mean men whom we regard without any particular emotion. |
is not this an innocent child's pleading of an unimaginable loftiness, true, frank, and just, unexampled?--and in what a necessity employed! |
"impiger. . . ad letum et fortis virtute coacta." |
attention to the previous course of a man's life, or that it is not proper, that it is quite natural that a man who has done so and so should have committed this crime also, or that it is not natural, that it is especially necessary to consider the |
now we may be well assured that the case was not thus, but far otherwise, with the early christians. had it been thus, christianity never would have expanded from an obscure sect of the despised hebrews into the religion of the roman empire. |
fourthly, when they use them to grieve one another: for seeing nature hath armed living creatures, some with teeth, some with horns, and some with hands, to grieve an enemy, it is but an abuse of speech, to grieve him with the tongue, unlesse it be one |
"as for those, then, who suppose the ideas to exist and to be numbers, by their assumption in virtue of the method of setting out each term apart from its instances-of the unity of each general term they try at least to explain somehow why number must |
we have described then what kind of men the brave are, and what they who are thought to be, but are not really, brave. |
secure a favourable position in actual warfare." |
of the best citizens. and now, silenus being grown up to a youth, and being ready for the action, lysander miscarried in his drama through the timidity of one of his actors, or assistants, who just as he came to the point lost heart and drew back. |
'musical' is an accident of coriscus; and 'musical coriscus' is one with 'just coriscus' because one part of each is an accident of one and the same subject. the case is similar if the accident is predicated of a genus or of any universal name, e.g. |
of persons artificiall, some have their words and actions owned by those whom they represent. and then the person is the actor; and he that owneth his words and actions, is the author: in which case the actor acteth by authority. |
ten. afterwards, indeed, when agrigentum was settled, the descendants of his enemies opposed his return; on which account he retired to peloponnesus, where he died. and timon has not let even empedocles escape, but satirises him in this style, saying:- |
athenian: then, now hear and judge for yourself:--would you like to have for a fellow-lodger or neighbour a very courageous man, who had no control over himself? |
certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors; and, |
six. when livius drusus, a vigorous and energetic man, brought forward bills for new laws and radical measures of the gracchus pattern, being the centre of a vast mob of all the peoples of italy, and seeing no way to solve the question, since he was not |
yet not being willing to rely totally upon the good inclination of the inhabitants, he armed all the romans who lived in those countries that were of military age, and undertook the building of ships and the making of all sorts of warlike engines, by |
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