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but hephaestion dying soon after, the king, in his grief, presuming all those that differed with hephaestion in his lifetime were now rejoicing at his death, showed much harshness and severity in his behavior with them, especially towards eumenes, whom he |
only could have a share in the government, in an oligarchy, or in a free state those of moderate fortunes only; when the city grows rich, through peace or some other happy cause, it becomes so little that every one's fortune is equal to the census, so |
to those who are sincere (with me), i am sincere; and to those who are not sincere (with me), i am also sincere;--and thus (all) get to be sincere. |
what is differentiated from it is as yet no external object (as in consciousness), but only the aspects of its own sentient totality, c. |
and noble. augustus had reason to be more sparing of this than the other, insomuch that honour is a privilege which derives its principal essence from rarity; and so virtue itself: |
and so truly great and so worthy of great men to be its leaders was, it would seem, the roman people, that they did not fear the severity end grim countenance of cato, but rejecting those smooth promisers who were ready to do all things to ingratiate |
sometimes, even though a name exists for the quality, that which takes its character from the quality has a name that is not a derivative. |
talents; the pillars were cut out of pentelican marble, of a length most happily proportioned to their thickness; these we saw at athens; but when they were cut anew at rome and polished, they did not gain so much in embellishment, as they lost in |
his speech was not only elegant and ready for purposes of mere business, like the ordinary oratory which will in the public market-place, |
begotten, it is a 'this such'. and the whole 'this', callias or socrates, is analogous to 'this brazen sphere', but man and animal to 'brazen sphere' in general. |
until the achaeans came he had lived in pedaeum, and had married medesicaste, a bastard daughter of priam; but on the arrival of the danaan fleet he had gone back to ilius, and was a great man among the trojans, dwelling near priam himself, who gave him |
four hundred fifty seven. in creative imagination intelligence has been so far perfected as to need no helps for intuition. its self-sprung ideas have pictorial existence. |
or 'possible' involve no reference to potency. but the senses which involve a reference to potency all refer to the primary kind of potency; and this is a source of change in another thing or in the same thing qua other. |
and, for the same reason, he will gladly accept and enjoy such honours as he deems likely to make him a better man; but those, whether private or public, which are likely to disorder his life, he will avoid? |
nypsius's men, and put them to flight. most of them escaped into the castle, which was near at hand; all that could not get in were pursued and picked up here and there by the soldiers, and put to the sword. |
for although it was by nature's guidance that men were drawn together into communities, it was in the hope of safeguarding their possessions that they sought the protection of cities. |
belief in that creed ought to produce in a mind thoroughly imbued with it. |
deserted by their allies, not voluntarily but of necessity, since these would have been conquered city after city by the naval force of the barbarian, and so they would have been left alone: and having been left alone and having displayed great deeds of |
verily, they themselves didst thou dream, thine enemies: that was thy sorest dream. |
which the legislator works, that each has a right to say what will be made of his own life. |
been always so ready to entertain against the senate; but will rather conclude that a bounty which seems to have no other visible cause or reason, must needs be the effect of our fear and flattery; and will, therefore, set no limit to their disobedience, |
and hence it is, that lying cold breedeth dreams of feare, and raiseth the thought and image of some fearfull object (the motion from the brain to the inner parts, and from the inner parts to the brain being reciprocall:) and that as anger causeth heat in |
how your words seem to hesitate on your lips! |
velut ego nunc moveor. venit enim mihi plato in mentem, quera accepimus primum hic disputare solitum: cuius etiam illi hortuli propinqui non memoriam solum mihi afferunt, sed ipsum videntur in conspectu meo hic ponere. |
consulem ob eam rem fieri, quod sibi tum proposuerat, valde utile videbatur. sed omnium una regula est, quam tibi cupio esse notissimam, aut illud, quod utile videtur, turpe ne sit aut, si turpe est, ne videatur esse utile. quod igitur? |
and it may easily be understood that there is more difficulty in discovering the rhythm in an oration than in verses. |
(let that be the name of your engine.) men are advertised that at a certain hour and minute these bolts will be shot toward particular points of the compass; yet it interferes with no man's business, and the children go to school on the other track. |
for my part (he replied), the question forces itself upon my mind, whether the gods have any other occupation save only to minister to man; and i am only hindered from saying so, because the rest of animals would seem to share these benefits along with |
meanwhile the achaeans from their seats were watching how the horses went, as they scoured the plain amid clouds of their own dust. |
should i take one to be my guide, peradventure i should not be able to keep pace with him; and in the freedom of my liberty might deliver judgments, which upon better thoughts, and according to reason, would be illegitimate and punishable. |
but beyond and above the practical ideal of what is best for man begins to show itself another and still higher ideal-that of a life not distinctively human or in a narrow sense practical, yet capable of being participated in by man even under the actual |
(eight) "and if this be so concerning wisdom, sophia , what of sophrasune , soundness of soul--sobriety?" |
and thus may we be able, without any difficulty, to conceive the same person at the resurrection, though in a body not exactly in make or parts the same which he had here,-the same consciousness going along with the soul that inhabits it. |
but if on the other hand one supposes this, many impossible results, as we have said, follow. but either this or the other must be the case, so that if neither is, number cannot exist separately. |
athenian: then if these studies are such as we maintain, we will include them; if not, they shall be excluded. |
the expression 'not-man' is not a noun. there is indeed no recognized term by which we may denote such an expression, for it is not a sentence or a denial. let it then be called an indefinite noun. |
he will follow and love you, and will hate himself, and escape from himself into philosophy, in order that he may become different from what he was. |
say, for such wonder claims attention due. to whom the guileful tempter thus replied. empress of this fair world, resplendent eve! |
thou bad false coiner, how couldst thou do otherwise! thy very malady wouldst thou whitewash if thou showed thyself naked to thy physician. |
now by the uninitiated i mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence. |
if i must serve for an instrument of deceit, let it be at least with a safe conscience: i will not be reputed a servant either so affectionate or so loyal as to be fit to betray any one: he who is unfaithful to himself, is excusably so to his master. |
her philters, finding that, in despite of his reason and philosophical rules, his unruly flesh began to mutiny, he caused those members of his to be burned that he found consenting to this rebellion. |
the venture is a glorious one, and he ought to comfort himself with words like these, which is the reason why i lengthen out the tale. |
served him, being examined by the followers of archias, affirmed that he had worn it in a bracelet for a long time, as an amulet. |
now pantaleon was a son of alyattes and a brother of croesus, but not by the same mother, for croesus was born to alyattes of a carian woman, but pantaleon of an ionian. |
that fortitude which he had often shown in fighting the enemy ostorius now turned against himself. |
we do this when we paint a highly-coloured picture of the situation without having proved the facts of it: if the defendant does so, he produces an impression of his innocence; and if the prosecutor goes into a passion, he produces an impression of the |
used their natural freedom, to set up him, whom they judged the ablest, and most likely, to rule well over them. |
in a nation of the indies, there is this commendable custom, that when anything befalls them amiss in any encounter or battle, they publicly ask pardon of the sun, who is their god, as having committed an unjust action, always imputing their good or evil |
secondly, they have the priviledge to make common-wealths, move, and stretch out their armes, when need is, into forraign countries; and supply, not only private subjects that travell, but also whole armies with provision. |
oromasdes, and that of the other pluto or arimanius. |
he is eager that socrates should come to visit him, fond of the poetry of the last generation, happy in the consciousness of a well-spent life, glad at having escaped from the tyranny of youthful lusts. |
with vernant flowers, equal in days and nights, except to those beyond the polar circles; to them day had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, to recompense his distance, in their sight had rounded still the horizon, and not known or east or west; which |
athenian: but are sure that it must be vast and incalculable? |
and however we may flatter ourselves that we are guided, in every step which we take, by a kind of verisimilitude and experience, we may be assured that this fancied experience has no authority when we thus apply it to subjects that lie entirely out of |
is chiefly nature's, for it is her part to supply her offspring with food; for everything finds nourishment left for it in what produced it; for which reason the natural riches of all men arise from fruits and animals. |
nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. |
by pleasure in a different manner from poor men. in the same way they say that slavery and freedom are things indifferent, if measured by the standard of pleasure, and nobility and baseness of birth, and glory and infamy. |
that we ought not to be angry with men; and what are the small and the great things among men.-what is the cause of assenting to anything? the fact that it appears to be true. it is not possible then to assent to that which appears not to be true. why? |
for plato is the prophet who 'came into the world to convince men'-first of the fallibility of sense and opinion, and secondly of the reality of abstract ideas. |
why, therefore, should we put mithridates upon this resource, who as yet does not see now he may best fight with us, and disdains to stoop to tigranes; and not rather allow him time to gather a new army and grow confident again, that we may thus fight |
and the laws of nature themselves are less inquired into in a controversy of this sort, because they have no particular connexion with the civil law of which we are speaking and also, because they are somewhat remote from ordinary understandings. |
i have long seen you killing my sheep and making free with my corn and wine: i have put up with this, for one man is no match for many, but do me no further violence. |
chamber, seems originally to have been solon's contrivance, who called canceling debts seisacthea, a relief, or disencumbrance. |
sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul, by means of which, however, she can perceive nothing, unless she is on the spot, and exerts herself. |
but they never prescribed what the patient was afterwards to eat or drink in the case of menelaus, any more than in the case of eurypylus; the remedies, as they conceived, were enough to heal any man who before he was wounded was healthy and regular in |
adraste brought her a seat, alcippe a soft woollen rug while phylo fetched her the silver work-box which alcandra wife of polybus had given her. |
nothing can be plainer than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature) cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance; such a being |
that motion and rest act by free will. wherefore will no more appertains to god than does anything else in nature, but stands in the same relation to him as motion, rest, and the like, which we have shown to follow from the necessity of the divine nature, |
whatsoever is besides either is already past, or uncertain. |
to be said deprived of them, but only negatively wanting them; and i cannot prove that god ought to have given me a greater faculty of knowing . |
is there more noise or confusion in the scolding of herring-wives than in the public disputes of men of this profession? i had rather my son should learn in a tap-house to speak, than in the schools to prate. |
it is moisture or blood, that is one and the same.) and since it is not. the same, as colour and the visible are not the same, it is the complete reality of the potential, and as potential, that is movement. |
ad usum, non iniquum est, alteri deripere ius non est." |
reason to think that the heathen world, i.e. the greatest part of mankind, had such ideas of god in their minds as he himself, out of care that they should not be mistaken about him, was author of. |
universal and ready assent upon hearing and understanding the terms is, i grant, a mark of self-evidence; but self-evidence, depending not on innate impressions, but on something else, (as we shall show hereafter,) belongs to several propositions which |
"o father, can it be, that souls sublime return to visit our terrestrial clime, and that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, can covet lazy limbs and mortal breath?" |
they say also that honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty; and they are quite ready to call wicked men happy, and to honour them both in public and private when they are rich or in any other way influential, while they despise and |
being furnished with ships at rhodes, he also prevailed upon the inhabitants of cos and cnidus, to leave the king's side, and join in an expedition against the samians. |
such a proposition would be, "the sun is by its light the cause of heat." |
against the quarrelsome and ferocious.-the wise and good man neither himself fights with any person, nor does he allow another, so far as he can prevent it. |
complaints that the athenians had to make. |
after this, antony sent a new challenge to caesar, to fight him hand to hand; who made him answer that he might find several other ways to end his life; and he, considering with himself that he could not die more honorably than in battle, resolved to make |
for the sake of concealing some crime which he has committed, is held guilty of murder. but they are not always treated with equal consideration. the punishments inflicted on them bear no proportion to their crimes. |
if a man, being in his right mind, dare to smite his father and mother, or his grandfather and grandmother, let the passer-by come to the rescue; and if he be a metic or stranger who comes to the rescue, he shall have the first place at the games; or if |
to inform the mind, and govern the actions of their yet ignorant nonage, till reason shall take its place, and ease them of that trouble, is what the children want, and the parents are bound to: for god having given man an understanding to direct his |
and this union is the virtue of the mind, which, according to some people, is temperance itself; others make it consist in an obedience to the precepts of temperance, and a compliance with them, not allowing it to be any distinct species of itself. |
prop. fifty seven. the proud man delights in the company of flatterers and parasites, but hates the company of the high--minded. |
the first set contains, a treatise in ten books, on the honourable, and on pleasure, addressed to aristocreon; a demonstration, that pleasure is not the chief good of man, in four books; a demonstration that pleasure is not a good at all, in four books; a |
and all seasons." ut vinum ogrotis, quia prodest raro, nocet sopissime, melius est non adhibere omnino, quam, spe dubio salutis, in apertam per-niciem incurrere; sic, haud scio an melius fuerit humano generi motum istum celerem cogitationis, acumen, |
two hundred two. let us at once say again what we have already said a hundred times, for people's ears nowadays are unwilling to hear such truths--our truths. |
and cost out of their labour and estates, so he injure not the right of any other. |
but if anyone does enjoy these--not to seem to have proclaimed war against all pleasure without exception, which is perhaps a feeling inspired by nature--i fail to perceive even in these very pleasures that old age is entirely without the power of |
from this place they marched through deep snow over a flat country three stages--fifteen parasangs (one). the last of these marches was trying, with the north wind blowing in their teeth, drying up everything and benumbing the men. |
poison. there was never any famous orator known to come out of persia or macedon. |
it is satisfying, because it is just the reverse of indefinite; and moreover, the hearer always feels that he is grasping something and has reached some definite conclusion; whereas it is unsatisfactory to see nothing in front of you and get nowhere. |
that soul, i say, herself invisible, departs to the invisible world--to the divine and immortal and rational: thither arriving, she is secure of bliss and is released from the error and folly of men, their fears and wild passions and all other human ills, |
tsze-kung replied, 'it is said in the book of poetry, "as you cut and then file, as you carve and then polish."-- the meaning is the same, i apprehend, as that which you have just expressed.' three. |
while exposing his hands and body in the fight, and bravely repelling all that engaged him, he still guided the battle with a steady and undisturbed reason, and such presence of mind, as if he had been out of the action and watching it from a distance, |
three. now the thracian race is the most numerous, except the indians, in all the world: and if it should come to be ruled over by one man, or to agree together in one, it would be irresistible in fight and the strongest by far of all nations, in my |
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