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carriage, without ever having thought of it or taken any such resolution long before. |
socrates: then we are the more bound, my dear theodorus, to examine the question from the foundation as it is set forth by themselves. |
they would have utterly destroyed them. knowing therefore the defects of both these kinds of infantry, a third kind can be created which can resist cavalry and need not fear infantry, and this will be done not by the creation of armies but by a change of |
but what shall we say of him who takes the life which is dearest to him, that is to say, his own; and this not from any disgrace or calamity, but from cowardice and indolence? |
astyages then desiring to guard against this, when cyrus was born, called harpagos, a man who was of kin near him and whom he trusted above all the other medes, and had made him manager of all his affairs; and to him he said as follows: "neglect not by |
societies of men, governed by practical opinions and rules of living quite opposite to others. |
and socrates, looking at eryximachus, said: tell me, son of acumenus, was there not reason in my fears? and was i not a true prophet when i said that agathon would make a wonderful oration, and that i should be in a strait? |
now the first assumption is true; therefore the conclusion is likewise true. |
and if he goes to sea, he follows that design, not knowing whether his voyage shall be successful or no; and only insists upon the tightness of the vessel, the experience of the pilot, and the convenience of the season, and such probable circumstances; |
the individual has no chance, because he has no rights, against the social organism. society can punish him for acts or even opinions which are anti-social in character. his virtue lies in recognising the intimate communion with his fellows. |
yen tzu b.one hundred. four hundred ninety three said of ssu-ma jang-chu: "his civil virtues endeared him to the people; his martial prowess kept his enemies in awe." cf. wu tzu, ch. |
for, if we may conclude that god hath done for men all that men shall judge is best for them, because it is suitable to his goodness so to do, it will prove, not only that god has imprinted on the minds of men an idea of himself, but that he hath plainly |
and now for one magnificent lie, in the belief of which, oh that we could train our rulers!-at any rate let us make the attempt with the rest of the world. |
they are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their |
the state subsists by means not of the laws, but of the legislative power. yesterday's law is not binding to-day; but silence is taken for tacit consent, and the sovereign is held to confirm incessantly the laws it does not abrogate as it might. |
one should put forward all propositions that hold true of several cases, and to which either no objection whatever appears or at least not any on the surface: for when people cannot see any case in which it is not so, they admit it for true. |
why you do not mete out the same measure to all. for there can not be more than three or four left. why do not they who are in similar misfortune enjoy a similar degree of your mercy? why do you treat them as you treated your uncle? |
the master said, '"if good men were to govern a country in succession for a hundred years, they would be able to transform the violently bad, and dispense with capital punishments." true indeed is this saying!' chap. twelve. |
alteration i should say, to speak truly and properly; but that i may be the better understood, i am content at this time to use that more common word. |
what then can be effected by this division of necessity? i might almost say, a great deal, when the topic of necessity appears such as may be easily introduced. |
and lastly, whether he never did suffer his mind to sympathise with the senses, and affections of the body. |
unfortunately, some of his notes and footnotes contain chinese characters; some are completely chinese. thus, a conversion to a latin alphabet etext was difficult. |
these precious moments, if we have ever known them, are the nearest approach which we can make to the idea of immortality. |
(religion is that consciousness in its absolute substantiality.) but the guarantee lies also at the same time in the actual organisation or development of that principle in suitable institutions. |
toilsomely did my spirit mount stairs, and cautiously; alms of delight were its refreshment; on the staff did life creep along with the blind one. |
influenced, whereas what has been cannot not have been: and so agathon is right in saying |
he farther declared, that he was commanded to consecrate to the muses the place, and the fields about it, where they had been chiefly wont to meet with him, and that the spring which watered the field should be hallowed for the use of the vestal virgins, |
for if they have been maintained at every period--if one has lived much as well as long--the harvest they produce is wonderful, not only because they never fail us even in our last days (though that in itself is supremely important), but also because the |
i wish, by hercules! i were, replies cotta; for it is more difficult to dispute with lucilius than it was with you. why so? says velleius. |
according to nature, that is, to live in real dominion over others, and not in legal subjection to them. |
family of peisistratos go for refuge; seventy five and when hippias had come upon the summons, the spartans sent also for envoys to come from their other allies and spoke to them as follows: "allies, we are conscious within ourselves that we have not |
this, yea, this alone is revenge itself: the will's antipathy to time, and its "it was." |
conclave of clackers. but one thing is clear: nothing must induce him to give a performance, or he will be exposed at once, and find himself a laughing-stock not only as a sorry sort of flute player, but as a wretched imposter. |
the acquisition of friends. houses, and fields, and slaves, and cattle, and furniture of all sorts (he said) they were at pains to acquire, and they strove hard to keep what they had got; but to procure for themselves this greatest of all blessings, as |
these were succeeded by a third division, of picked men, native macedonians, the choicest for courage and strength, in the prime of life, gleaming with gilt armor and scarlet coats. |
things that deserve to be remembered are noble, and the more they deserve this, the nobler they are. |
legion, with great zeal for the republic, and with admirable unanimity, under the guidance and authority of caius caesar, have defended and are defending the republic and the liberty of the roman people, and as caius caesar, propraetor, has gone with his |
freezing wind, which raged in that season. |
cymothoe, triton, and the sea-green train of beauteous nymphs, the daughters of the main, clear from the rocks the vessels with their hands: the god himself with ready trident stands, and opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands; then heaves them off |
from antecedents: "if a divorce has been caused by the fault of the husband, although the woman has demanded it, still she is not bound to leave any of her dowry for her children." |
where is the wonder, then, if in philosophy also many things which are true appear paradoxical to the inexperienced? |
and therefore, where many sorts of worship be allowed, proceeding from the different religions of private men, it cannot be said there is any publique worship, nor that the common-wealth is of any religion at all. |
the difference between a problem and a proposition is a difference in the turn of the phrase. for if it be put in this way, "'an animal that walks on two feet" is the definition of man, is it not?' or '"animal" is the genus of man, is it not?' |
and our inquiry here extends not to things in themselves (the properties of which we pass by), but to things as objects of possible experience, and the complex of these is what we properly designate as nature. |
well. you do me no harm; neither do men harm the gods when they overthrow their altars: but it is clear that your intention is an evil one and that you will wish to do harm even two hundred thirty seven where you are not able. |
thus, to prescribe the conditions according to which he can dispose of them, is in reality less to alter his right as it appears, than to extend it in fact. |
callippus, however, did not long continue to scandalize fortune and upbraid the gods with his prosperity, as though they connived at and bore with the wretched man, while he purchased riches and power by heinous impieties, but he quickly received the |
the pope therefore, when he disclaimeth the supreme civill power over other states directly, denyeth no more, but that his right cometh to him by that way; he ceaseth not for all that, to claime it another way; and that is, (without the consent of them |
dost take my drift, or seem these words as vain as seemed our warnings when the plot was hatched? |
after that marius was overcome by sylla and fled into africa, and sylla had left italy to go to the wars against mithridates, and of the two consuls octavius and cinna, octavius remained steadfast to the policy of sylla, but cinna, desirous of a new |
let us, then, refrain from unprofitable tears: for our grief will carry us away to join him sooner than it will bring him back to us: and if it tortures us without helping us, we ought to lay it aside as soon as possible, and restore the tone of our minds |
james's park; though perhaps i have but a very obscure and imperfect idea of those birds themselves. |
polyneices. woe worth my journey and my baffled hopes! woe worth my comrades! what a desperate end to that glad march from argos! woe is me! i dare not whisper it to my allies or turn them back, but mute must meet my doom. |
"again, it would seem impossible that substance and that whose substance it is should exist apart; how, therefore, could the ideas, being the substances of things, exist apart? |
what was there in the whole of the journey of the antonii; except depopulation, devastation, slaughter, and rapine? |
so that their conscience does not trouble them so much as we imagine, for in the darkest depths of their hearts they are conscious that in violating their duty towards the individual they have all the better fulfilled it towards the species, whose claim |
thus children, either for want of names to mark the several progressions of numbers, or not having yet the faculty to collect scattered ideas into complex ones, and range them in a regular order, and so retain them in their memories, as is necessary to |
we therefore humbly pray you to show us some hospitality, and otherwise make us such presents as visitors may reasonably expect. |
for a hoe,.................................. zero.fifty four ploughing, harrowing, and furrowing,......... seven.fifty too much. beans for seed,.............................. |
but gryllus, serving in the cavalry, (and the battle took place at mantinea,) fought very gallantly, and was slain, as ephorus tells us, in his twenty-fifth book; cephisodorus being the captain of the cavalry, and hegesides the commander-in-chief. |
but, with the catchwords of utilitarianism ringing in their ears, the commentators ran straight contrary to the true teaching of the protagoras , consentient as it is with that of the phaedo and the philebus . |
athenian: is not the knowledge of the gods which we have set forth with so much zeal one of the noblest sorts of knowledge--to know that they are, and know how great is their power, as far as in man lies? |
i do not understand your meaning, he said. |
ssu-ma ch'ien gives the following biography of sun tzu: one |
seventh and eighth years of the war-end of corcyraean revolution- peace of gela-capture of nisaea |
i am refreshed and expanded when the freight train rattles past me, and i smell the stores which go dispensing their odors all the way from long wharf to lake champlain, reminding me of foreign parts, of coral reefs, and indian oceans, and tropical |
athenian: i say that about serious matters a man should be serious, and about a matter which is not serious he should not be serious; and that god is the natural and worthy object of our most serious and blessed endeavours, for man, as i said before, is |
--and the poets singularly dwell upon the horrors of this picture, as something worse than death: |
the same is true also in the case of a property; for if 'to be capable of learning grammar is an attribute of s', then 's will be capable of learning grammar'. |
of a quaestor equal to the dignity of a consul. |
or suffering, or in some place or at some time. |
the citizens will not tolerate a settlement in which they are deprived of gold and silver, and have the number of their families regulated, and the sites of their houses fixed by law. it will be said that our city is a mere image of wax. |
others, also, of the most powerful and ambitious amongst the spartans, were possessed with jealousy of him, and, at last, prevailed with the magistrates in the city to send orders into ionia that he should be killed. |
and nestor answered, "why should achilles care to know how many of the achaeans may be wounded? |
the cause of thebes, destitute of allies, seemed in a desperate condition. but pelopidas and gorgidas, holding the office of captains of boeotia, designing to breed a quarrel between the lacedaemonians and athenians, made this contrivance. |
"with these incitements grief provokes itself." --lucretius, ii. forty two. |
thirty. so solon, having left his native country for this reason and for the sake of seeing various lands, came to amasis in egypt, and also to croesus at sardis. |
on the other hand to set up other and eternal substances equal in number to the sensible and perishable substances would seem to fall beyond the bounds of probability.-but if the principle we now seek is not separable from corporeal things, what has a |
still, with whatever diversity of detail, the important feature of such social ethics is that the stress is laid on the performance of certain acts, in accordance with the organisation of society. |
shall take all the syracusans." yet, indeed, this was said to be accomplished by the athenians at another time, when callippus the athenian, having slain dion, became master of syracuse. |
secondly, though these my principles make appearances of the representations of the senses, they are so far from turning the truth of experience into mere illusion, that they are rather the only means of preventing the transcendental illusion, by which |
true, socrates; but i must say that one who like you has passed a lifetime in the study of philosophy should not be always repeating the opinions of others, and never telling his own. |
thus it is therefore with the habits of perfected self-mastery and courage and the rest of the virtues: for the man who flies from and fears all things, and never stands up against anything, comes to be a coward; and he who fears nothing, but goes at |
the stoics say, that it is living according to nature in a wise man to, take his leave of life, even in the height of prosperity, if he do it opportunely; and in a fool to prolong it, though he be miserable, provided he be not indigent of those things |
soc. well, and in parliamentary debate, by putting a stop to party strife and fostering civic concord? |
none doth but gods lieutenant, who hath the soveraignty under god. but this pretence of covenant with god, is so evident a lye, even in the pretenders own consciences, that it is not onely an act of an unjust, but also of a vile, and unmanly disposition. |
it is by the activity of the passions that pur reason is improved; for we desire knowledge only because we wish to enjoy; and it is impossible to conceive any reason why a person who has neither fears nor desires should give himself the trouble of |
thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants. |
but what is it strictly that i thus imagine? let me consider: and having rejected whatever belongs not to the wax, let me see what will remain, viz. this only, a thing extended , flexible , and mutable . but what is this flexible , and mutable ? |
make your decision, therefore, for glory then and honour now, and attain both objects by instant and zealous effort: do not send heralds to lacedaemon, and do not betray any sign of being oppressed by your present sufferings, since they whose minds are |
of a god ? certainly i find the idea of a god , or infinitely perfect being , as naturally in me, as the idea of any figure , or number ; and i as clearly and distinctly understand that it appertains to his nature always to be , as i know that what i can |
and all these things are to be sought for themselves, even if no advantage is to be acquired by them. and it neither concerns our present purpose to prove this, nor is it agreeable to our object of being concise in laying down our rules. |
but should any reader find this plan, which i publish as the prolegomena to any future metaphysics, still obscure, let him consider that not every one is bound to study metaphysics, that many minds will succeed very well, in the exact and even in deep |
ten. with regard to precipitous heights , if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up. |
in consideration of which, i will further say this (for i desire to please every one, though it will be hard to do): |
for there is no common term we could apply to the mimes of sophron and xenarchus and the socratic dialogues on the one hand; and, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any similar metre. |
the type of the judgement; hence, the present remark will serve to guard against reckoning amongst concepts themselves that which belongs only to the typic of concepts. |
failed. the fault of this disappointment he wholly ascribes to the populace, who, knowing his intimacy with king bocchus, and for that reason expecting, that if he was made aedile before his praetorship, he would then show them magnificent hunting-shows |
what has been said has shown us how many kinds of maxims there are, and to what subjects the various kinds are appropriate. |
on facile ground, i would see that there is close connection between all parts of my army. |
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