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and so in gymnastics, if a man takes violent exercise and is a great feeder, and the reverse of a great student of music and philosophy, at first the high condition of his body fills him with pride and spirit, and he becomes twice the man that he was. |
on the other hand, the man, with the more careful logical methods and the slow processes of formal reasoning, is apt to suppose that the happy intuition which leaps to the conclusion is really based on the intellectual processes of which he is conscious |
phliasians and those near them went by the plain along the smoothest way. |
i protest, therefore, against any suspicions of my intentions after the guarantees which i offer, and equally so against doubts of my ability to protect you, and i invite you to join me without hesitation. |
however, after they had crossed the sea and engaged in operations of war, encamping in front of the enemy, antony opposite cassius, and caesar opposite brutus, caesar did nothing worth relating, and all the success and victory were antony's. |
the knowledge of the stars and the motion of the eighth sphere before their own: |
two hundred thirty seven. to him xerxes made answer as follows: "achaimenes, i think that thou speakest well, and so will i do; but demaratos speaks that which he believes to be best for me, though his opinion is defeated by thine: for i will not |
ten. marcellus, then, nobly endured his exile, and his change of place made no change in his mind, even though it was accompanied by poverty, in which every man who three hundred thirty four has not fallen into the madness of avarice and luxury, which |
properties belong to every integral; and if the military are not happy, who else are so? for the artisans are not, nor the multitude of those who are employed in inferior offices. |
while the ships from corinth, sicyon, and the neighbourhood were getting ready, and those from leucas, anactorium, and ambracia, which had arrived before, were waiting for them at leucas, cnemus and his thousand heavy infantry had run into the gulf, |
the left wing, where parmenio commanded, was so impetuously charged by the bactrian horse that it was disordered and forced to give ground, at the same time that mazaeus had sent a detachment round about to fall upon those who guarded the baggage, which |
when any rodrigo, pedro or valerio enters, though he be a stranger, the duke or governor exclaims, 'this is a gentleman,-and proffers civilities without end; but all the rest are slag and refuse. |
it is at all events in the power of brave men, such as you ought to be, to display your valour, (for certainly brave men can do that,) and not to fear the caprice of fortune. |
he who was thus trained would be a greater warrior than those of whom tyrtaeus speaks, for he would be courageous, and yet he would know that courage was only fourth in the scale of virtue. |
for if he meant that a particular pleasure is good, you must show universally that no pleasure is good, if the proposition in question is to be demolished. |
"we must no doubt inquire how we should express ourselves on each point, but certainly not more than how the facts actually stand. |
men with difficulty perceived the truth, and said that a pine alone of all trees when it has been cut down does not put forth any further growth but perishes, being utterly destroyed. |
but in this complete accordance between concept and intuition, between visible and invisible, where symbol and significate are one, religion and ethics are indistinguishable. |
these interruptions fill me with fresh affection towards my family, and render my house more pleasant to me. change warms my appetite to the one and then to the other. |
the proper problem upon which all depends, when expressed with scholastic precision, is therefore: |
and he was strongly disposed not to believe that bronze men would come to help him; but after no long time had passed, certain ionians and carians who had sailed forth for plunder were compelled to come to shore in egypt, and they having landed and being |
--and what did theophrastus treat of in those he intituled, the one 'the lover', and the other 'of love?' of what aristippus in his 'of former delights'? what do the so long and lively descriptions in plato of the loves of his time pretend to? |
then he said: you seem, my friends, to be sober, which is a thing not to be endured; you must drink--for that was the agreement under which i was admitted--and i elect myself master of the feast until you are well drunk. |
on the contrary, the former are roused to thought through the subject itself , hence their thinking is directed immediately to it. it is only among them that we find the authors whose names become immortal. |
but those that were with him would not allow him to keep it covered up, but bade him let everyone see the brave deed he had done; so that after a while he stuck upon the lance the head of the aged man that had been their grave and temperate ruler, their |
socrates: there is something more ridiculous coming:--suppose, further, that in sober earnest i, having persuaded you of this, went and composed a speech in honour of an ass, whom i entitled a horse beginning: 'a noble animal and a most useful possession, |
from an unseen position. the mistakes and forces of the enemy the wood would in a great measure conceal from him, while every blunder of his own troops would be at once detected, and they would be thus able to fall upon him unexpectedly just where they |
he weighed out ten talents of gold, and brought moreover two burnished tripods, four cauldrons, and a very beautiful cup which the thracians had given him when he had gone to them on an embassy; it was very precious, but he grudged not even this, so eager |
with eyes and ears and mouth). (twelve) consider next how they gave to the beast of the field (thirteen) feet as a means of progression only, but to man they gave in addition hands--those hands which have achieved so much to raise us in the scale of |
in some sort ravishes them from themselves: but, this perturbation once overcome, we see that they insensibly flag and slacken of themselves, if not to the lowest degree, at least so as to be no more the same; insomuch as that upon every trivial occasion, |
which always remains, and by this conversion is rendered useful and profitable; or, on the other hand, hurtful and useless. |
plotting against me and against my throne: and how i know this for certain i will declare to thee:-the gods have a care of me and show me beforehand all the evils that threaten me. |
expressly to call sertorius into italy, and to let him know what great numbers there were that earnestly desired to alter the present state of affairs, and to introduce another manner of government. |
things which we do not perceive, but that they have need of an increase in their faculty of understanding. the will is thus distinguished from the intellect, the latter being finite and the former infinite. |
speeches proceed upon the supposition that love is and ought to be interested, and that no such thing as a real or disinterested passion, which would be at the same time lasting, could be conceived. 'but did i call this "love"? |
i have mentioned the proposals and sycophancy of these men, in order to bring to light this old-standing evil in the state. |
down, supported by his arms, "this, sir," she exclaimed, "is the effect of my fortune, not of yours, that i see you thus reduced to one poor vessel, who before your marriage with cornelia, were wont to sail in these seas with a fleet of five hundred |
one principle prevails in the souls of one class of men, another in others, as may happen? |
came and begged the thebans, that they might give the funeral; and one of them said, "friends, we ask a favor of you, that will prove both an honor and comfort to us in this our great misfortune. |
whoso thus knows himself, and knows his soul purusha, working through the qualities with nature's modes, the light hath come for him! whatever flesh he bears, never again shall he take on its load. |
"we must consider also in which of two ways the nature of the universe contains the good, and the highest good, whether as something separate and by itself, or as the order of the parts. |
for 'that which is' has two meanings, so that in some sense a thing can come to be out of that which is not, while in some sense it cannot, and the same thing can at the same time be in being and not in being-but not in the same respect. |
when we follow the proofs of this law, we soon perceive, that it can only be derived from the condition on which the understanding founds the construction of this figure, and which is that of the equality of the radii. |
"thus he speaks, weeping, and then sets sail with his fleet." --aeneid, vi. i. |
and to robbe a poore man, is a greater crime, than to robbe a rich man; because 'tis to the poore a more sensible dammage. |
lacedaemonians. he proposed it, therefore, as a point of emulation in valor and love of distinction, to the commanders and captains who were around him, if any would voluntarily take upon them the defense and succor of the megarians. |
we may readily understand that there is in the state of nature nothing, which by universal consent is pronounced good or bad; for in the state of nature everyone thinks solely of his own advantage, and according to his disposition, with reference only to |
and the other a good thief: whereas it is not the actual pilfering in secret, but the wish to do it, that constitutes the thief. |
them (in judgements) are absent, to wit, the formal conditions of the subsumption of an object under these conceptions. |
well, he is worthy to be called that which thou seekest, namely a happy man; but before he comes to his end it is well to hold back and not to call him yet happy but only fortunate. |
the one since first she grew from girlish feebleness to womanhood has been the old man's guide and shared my weary wandering, roaming oft hungry and footsore through wild forest ways, in drenching rains and under scorching suns, careless herself of home |
persuaded his had been the soul of socrates (how reasonably i will not dispute; this i know, that in the post he filled, which was no inconsiderable one, he passed for a very rational man, and the press has shown that he wanted not parts or |
he cannot oblige men to beleeve; though as a civill soveraign he may make laws suitable to his doctrine, which may oblige men to certain actions, and sometimes to such as they would not otherwise do, and which he ought not to command; and yet when they |
the second are such as working metals and carpentry, for they are alterative arts. for working in metals makes arms out of iron; and carpentry makes flutes and lyres out of wood. |
the sophists, as he describes them in the republic, are the imitators rather than the authors, being themselves carried away by the great tide of public opinion. |
the three great grecian tragedians, for instance, all worked at the same subject. |
knowledge of the private actions of an ignorant, unwary man, thereby tells him, what he has done in former time; it seems to him a miraculous thing; but amongst wise, and cautelous men, such miracles as those, cannot easily be done. |
but this is to be noted, that the perception thereof is not sight , the touch , or the imagination thereof; neither was it ever so, though at first it seem'd so. |
hear from my mouth at a former time, when we were setting forth to go against hellas, the things concerning these men; and having heard them thou madest me an object of laughter, because i told thee of these things which i perceived would come to pass; |
these rare forms, that are culled out by the consent of the wisest men of all ages, for the world's example, i should not stick to augment in honour, as far as my invention would permit, in all the circumstances of favourable interpretation; and we may |
necessity is that because of which a thing cannot be otherwise; and similarly as regards the conditions of life and of good; for when in the one case good, in the other life and being, are not possible without certain conditions, these are necessary, and |
numa resided at a famous city of the sabines called cures, whence the romans and sabines gave themselves the joint name of quirites. |
polus: yes, and i rather suspect that i was in the right. |
but do not wait long, or some one may see you loitering about outside, and throw something at you. consider this matter i pray you." |
after listening to these proposals, they gave and accepted pledges of one good faith; and so the deputation rode off. before day they were back again in camp, and severally rendered a report to those who sent them. |
an immediate premiss; e.g. we argue that, since one hundred has occurred, therefore a occurred: and one hundred's occurrence was posterior, a's prior; but one hundred is the source of the inference because it is nearer to the present moment, and the |
fourteen. and he was, it is said, of a very accommodating temper; so much so, that antigonus, the king, often came to dine with him, and often carried him off to dine with him, at the house of aristocles the harp-player; but when he was there, he would |
the idea of god), which is against our hypothesis. |
brutus's dead body was found by antony, who commanded the richest purple mantle that he had to be thrown over it, and afterwards the mantle being stolen, he found the thief, and had him put to death. he sent the ashes of brutus to his mother servilia. |
both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famous cities of the world the one built rome, and the other made athens be inhabited. |
even forgetting that it were not lawful for philosophy to leave companionless the way of the innocent, should i, thinkest thou, fear to incur reproach, or shrink from it, as though some strange new thing had befallen? |
hence the application of mathematics to nature, as regards the sensuous intuition by which nature is given to us, becomes possible and is thus determined. |
then he entreated them by no means to separate, as if each single man could hope for any safety in forsaking his companions; on the contrary, while they kept together, caesar would have less reason to despise them, if they fought against him, and be more |
when he had constituted the areopagus of those who had been yearly archons, of which he himself was a member therefore, observing that the people, now free from their debts, were unsettled and imperious, he formed another council of four hundred, a |
others there are, again, who interchange the ends and means one with the other in their aims; for instance, some want riches for the sake of pleasure and power, some covet power either for the sake of money or in order to bring renown to their name. |
that his laws should be the best, and the commonwealth which observed them the most famous in the world. |
proceeding from ourselves, that is, a priori. |
metellus at the taking of corinth, but nicias's proceedings are inexcusable. |
when a king has dethroned himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people, what shall hinder them from prosecuting him who is no king, as they would any other man, who has put himself into a state of war with them, barclay, and those of his |
happy and satisfied with themselves rather on the testimony of other people than on their own. |
that central life is somewhat superior to creation, superior to knowledge and thought, and contains all its circles. |
for hyrodes was not ignorant of the greek language and literature, and artavasdes was so expert in it, that he wrote tragedies and orations and histories, some of which are still extant. |
himself left in part his heir, he gave to marcus servilius, whose name he discovered in an earlier and unquestioned will. in both these cases he said that noble rank ought to have the support of wealth. |
the first that met him were two half-blood greeks, who, leaping from their horses, made a profound reverence to crassus, and desired him, in greek, to send some before him, who might see that surena himself was coming towards them, his retinue disarmed, |
then he was afraid and said to diomed, "son of tydeus, turn your horses in flight; see you not that the hand of jove is against you? |
and since god is of that character, and since heaven resembles the best, inasmuch as it is at least the most beautiful of all things, it cannot be like anything else that is produced, except god. |
reserving himself for trifling expeditions against minoa and cythera, and the miserable melians, if there be occasion to come to blows with the lacedaemonians, slips off his general's cloak and hands over to the unskillfulness and rashness of cleon, |
if we oppose him in the shifting sands of the desert, we shall be no match for him, and we must therefore try a different plan. |
the rest of the party, seeing what was going on, seated themselves as suppliants in the temple of hera, being not less than four hundred in number; until the commons, fearing that they might adopt some desperate resolution, induced them to rise, and |
that food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest; and in general that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive--all this we know, not by discovering any necessary |
if therefore a mode is conceived as necessarily existing and infinite, it must necessarily be inferred or perceived through some attribute of god, in so far as such attribute is conceived as expressing the infinity and necessity of existence, in other |
lest the rashness of minucius should now at once run headlong into some disaster, he returned back with all privacy and speed to the army; where he found minucius so elevated with his new dignity, that, a joint-authority not contenting him, he required by |
ere he can do so our city will be razed and overthrown, for you who watched over it are no more-you who were its saviour, the guardian of our wives and children. |
sylla having thus dispatched him away, made an inroad into maedica, and after wide depopulations returned back again into macedon, where he received archelaus about philippi, bringing word that all was well, and that mithridates earnestly requested an |
should not be. it should not be. it is not impossible it is impossible thatit |
but he himself asserts that it is a repelling of an accusation. he must therefore assert also that demonstration and deliberation are neither a statement of a case, nor a portion of such a statement. |
and so some turn to philosophy, others to the civil law, and still others to oratory, while in case of the virtues themselves one man prefers to excel in one, another in another. |
erected all her trophies to her own shame and misery, and was brought to ruin and desolation almost wholly by the guilt and ambition of her great men. |
which the demonstrator takes as a whole is really only a part of a larger whole; for then the demonstration will be true of the individual instances within the part and will hold in every instance of it, yet the demonstration will not be true of this |
let us finally confess it, that what is most difficult for us men of the "historical sense" to grasp, feel, taste, and love, what finds us fundamentally prejudiced and almost hostile, is precisely the perfection and ultimate maturity in every culture and |
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