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"has he only new gods, or none at all?" "none at all." "what, not even the sun and moon?" "no; why, he says that the sun is a stone, and the moon earth." |
the athenians of the command of the sea, while as far as the enemy was concerned they had the same base of operations as before. indeed, with the fleet in their hands, they were better able to provide themselves with supplies than the government at home. |
this is the case with regard to that which is not always existent or not always nonexistent. |
greatness of soul consists not so much in mounting and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to govern and circumscribe itself; it takes everything for great, that is enough, and demonstrates itself in preferring moderate to eminent things. |
then mad or intemperate pleasure must never be allowed to come near the lover and his beloved; neither of them can have any part in it if their love is of the right sort? |
certainly with these men of consular rank, fifty two the senate which supported pompeius was not to be despised. |
the massagetai, when they were willing to pass over into our land, and so didst utterly ruin thyself by ill government of thine own land, and didst utterly ruin cyrus, who followed thy counsel. |
such a body is the ideal nobility-the nobility which is the servus servorum dei , the supreme servant of humanity. |
owne empire, and is inseparable from the soveraignty. |
a second and clearer instance of their favor appeared upon his making a magnificent oration in praise of his aunt julia, wife to marius, publicly in the forum, at whose funeral he was so bold as to bring forth the images of marius, which nobody had dared |
something becomes an agent, by meeting with some other thing is converted into a patient. |
them; they will particularly honour those wise and good princes, who find means of preventing, curing or even palliating all these evils and abuses, by which we are constantly threatened; they will animate the zeal of their deserving rulers, by showing |
because the attributes of numbers are present in a musical scale and in the heavens and in many other things. |
"nor less the queen our parting thence deplor'd, nor was less bounteous than her trojan lord. |
when we say, then, that a man acquiesces in what is false, and that he has no doubts on the subject, we do not say that he is certain, but only that he does not doubt, or that he acquiesces in what is false, inasmuch as there are no reasons, which should |
his mother did so; and that pythagoras came up again after a certain time, lean, and reduced to a skeleton; and that he came into the public assembly, and said that he had arrived from the shades below, and then he recited to them all that had happened |
come, then, and let us think of something to say to him. shall we begin by assuring him that he is welcome to any knowledge which he may have, and that we are rejoiced at his having it? |
but assume a consent and it shall presently be granted, since really and underneath their external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind. |
first, the body or magistrate convoking them had to possess the necessary authority; secondly, the assembly had to be held on a day allowed by law; and thirdly, the auguries had to be favourable. |
consciousness the consciousness of the other. this latter self-possessed individual is thus the effective subjective soul of the former, and the genius which may even supply him with a train of ideas. |
now near the shelves of circe's shores they run, (circe the rich, the daughter of the sun,) a dang'rous coast: the goddess wastes her days in joyous songs; the rocks resound her lays: in spinning, or the loom, she spends the night, and cedar brands supply |
contrary, is where those have it who are worth little or nothing. |
wind, vapour, showers of snow and hail. finally, having traversed every one of the realms below, it soars to the highest heaven, enjoys the noblest of all spectacles, that of things divine, and, remembering itself to be eternal, reviews all that has been |
the time appointed for women that lost their husbands to continue in widowhood. if any married again before that time, by the laws of numa she was to sacrifice a cow big with calf. |
for we desire justice in our friends for itself, even though it will make no difference to us, and even though they be in india; whereas in our enemies we desire it for something else, in order that they may do us no harm. |
two hundred twenty seven. this is an old saying, o atula, this is not only of to-day: they blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little; there is no one on earth who is not blamed.' |
afterwards, the mind proceeding further, abstracts them, and by degrees learns the use of general names. in this manner the mind comes to be furnished with ideas and language, the materials about which to exercise its discursive faculty. |
thus cato carried it, and so turned the house again, that it was decreed the conspirators should be put to death. |
a suitable 'expectation' of aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician eryximachus. |
nature and history have arranged that others, in other posts, shall do theirs: that all severally shall energise their function. |
whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives and man that receives; 'tis a mortal hand that presents it to us; 'tis a mortal hand that accepts it the things that come to us from heaven have the sole |
secondly, the parts of pure space are inseparable one from the other; so that the continuity cannot be separated, both neither really nor mentally. |
eighty three. these three opinions then had been proposed, and the other four men of the seven gave their assent to the last. |
become of no account in the eyes of the persians, seeing that we are of different race; but while thou art established as our king, who art one of our own nation, we both have our share of rule and receive great honours from thee. |
the three interlocutors all of them speak in the character of old men, which forms a pleasant bond of union between them. they have the feelings of old age about youth, about the state, about human things in general. |
melanthius lit the fire, and set a seat covered with sheep skins beside it. |
these four clauses are as concise as can be; but then come the two following sentences uttered in members:-- |
twelve. but can we be equally safe among antonius's piratical crew? we cannot; or, even if the rest can, i do not believe that i can. what will be the case if we are not to confer out of the camp? what camp is to be chosen for the conference? |
hence arose an inquiry after the beginnings, and, as it were, seeds from which all things were produced and composed; what was the origin of every kind of thing, whether animate or inanimate, articulately speaking or mute; what occasioned their beginning |
tongue will grow too stiff to bend too contemptible to be punished torture: rather a trial of patience than of truth totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge transferring of money from the right owners to strangers travel with not only a |
thirteen. after he had said this, xerxes thought that he who had spoken flew away; and when day had dawned he made no account of this dream, but gathered together the persians whom he had assembled also the former time and said to them these words: |
there is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. i need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. |
"since anything which is produced is produced by something (and this i call the starting-point of the production), and from something (and let this be taken to be not the privation but the matter; for the meaning we attach to this has already been |
virgins whom they call vestals. the most common opinion was, that the image of pallas, brought into italy by aeneas, was laid up there; others say that the samothracian images lay there, telling a story how that dardanus carried them to troy, and, when he |
it is a contention with ambition, like that of hercules with the monster hydra, which having many heads, for every one that was vanquished, there grew up three. |
to think this is giddiness and vertigo to human limbs, and even vomiting to the stomach: verily, the reeling sickness do i call it, to conjecture such a thing. |
but when one of his friends asked scopas, the rich thessalian, to give him some article of no great utility, saying that it was not a thing that he had any great need or use for himself, "in truth," replied he, "it is just these useless and unnecessary |
that pliny reports have no other language. an ambassador of the city of abdera, after a long conference with agis, king of sparta, demanded of him, "well, sir, what answer must i return to my fellow-citizens?" |
other animals and plants, and all the other things of which we were just now speaking, in the mirror. |
the privilege of reclining at your side! for you would have filled me full with a stream of wisdom plenteous and fair; whereas my own is of a very mean and questionable sort, no better than a dream. |
five. is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no? |
which is always the sign of an a priori principle. |
own will. everyone does, in fact, decide by this rule whether actions are morally good or evil. |
why, if you make it your policy to receive and assist all offenders, you will find that just as many of your dependencies will come over to us, and the principle that you establish will press less heavily on us than on yourselves. |
and as for the argument that 'when he who is musical becomes lettered he'll be both at once, not having been both before; and that which is, not always having been, must have come to be; therefore he must have at once become musical and lettered',-this |
knives; and by this it is manifested that they are strangers and not egyptians. |
brutus made use of the same device when besieged in modena, and others elsewhere have done the same. |
he that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but man-kind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any language, or science; yet, when i shall have set down my own reading orderly, and |
animals and plants, on the contrary, remain for ever subject to such influences. |
as there is some obscurity of expression in the demonstration as it stands in the text, i propose to alter the passage in question as follows: "but this permanent cannot be an intuition in me. |
they had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift |
motion. but as a false judgment may easily arise when the understanding is not on its guard against this subjective mode of representation being considered objective, we say they appear to move backward; it is not the senses however which must be charged |
of the hellenes outside sicily there were the lacedaemonians, who provided a spartan to take the command, and a force of neodamodes or freedmen, and of helots; the corinthians, who alone joined with naval and land forces, with their leucadian and |
there are causes which have many reasons, though the grounds of the cause are simple, and that is the case when what has been done, or what is being defended, may appear right or natural on many different accounts, as in this very cause. |
those others do the same, who insist upon prohibiting particular ways of speaking, dances, and games, to a people totally abandoned to all sorts of execrable vices. |
of the cognition of an object given in empirical intuition, and not from mere conceptions. that, however, the proposition: "everything that is contingent must have a cause," is evident to every one merely from conceptions, is not to be denied. |
that such infamy is endured in a town is a piece of barbarity and injustice, the more so as it could be easily removed by a police notice requiring every whip cord to have a knot at the end of it. |
these receive from improper sources, and improper amounts. |
about the things, then, which are essences and actualities, it is not possible to be in error, but only to know them or not to know them. but we do inquire what they are, viz. whether they are of such and such a nature or not. |
every one of alexander's followers carried his head on one side, as he did; and the flatterers of dionysius ran against one another in his presence, and stumbled at and overturned whatever was under foot, to shew they were as purblind as he. |
because twenty cartloads will be consumed in the process of transporting one cartload to the front. a picul is a unit of measure equal to one hundred thirty three.three pounds (sixty five.five kilograms). |
meaning from this sense of 'nature' every essence in general has come to be called a 'nature', because the nature of a thing is one kind of essence. |
into acts of injustice and rapacity. numa, therefore, hoping agriculture would be a sort of charm to captivate the affections of his people to peace, and viewing it rather as a means to moral than to economical profit, divided all the lands into several |
five. one of the most remarkable conceptions of plato, because un-greek and also very different from anything which existed at all in his age of the world, is the transposition of ranks. |
property of man: for not every man is possessed of two feet. |
defended siena, should be either more commodious or more acceptable to him, than those of a good groom of the chamber who understands his place. |
world; by which the spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro to tempt or punish mortals, except whom god and good angels guard by special grace. |
in scientific studies of the soul and the mind, habit is usually passed over-either as something contemptible-or rather for the further reason that it is one of the most difficult questions of psychology. |
concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith ideas are imprinted on the memory, we may observe,-that some of them have been produced in the understanding by an object affecting the senses once only, and no more than once; others, that have more |
for even these discourses left us by antiquity upon this subject, seem to me flat and poor, in comparison of the sense i have of it, and in this particular, the effects surpass even the precepts of philosophy. |
brought to ascend, not even if one were to try and accustom it by throwing it up ten thousand times; nor could file again be brought to descend, nor in fact could anything whose nature is in one way be brought by custom to be in another. |
only, by their own will, by that preference which they owe to your merit, and, for giving you, can claim some sort of acknowledgment on your side. |
polus: quite the reverse; neither you, nor i, nor any man. |
socrates reassumes the character of a 'know-nothing;' at the same time he appears to be not wholly satisfied with the manner in which the argument has been conducted. |
off by the athenians upon the news of the revolution and of the fleet with alcidas being about to sail for corcyra. |
one. for as we see athletes, and in a similar manner gladiators, act cautiously, neither avoiding nor aiming at anything with too much vehemence, (for over-vehement motions can have no rule;) so that whatever they do in a manner advantageous for their |
ninety eight. of those who sailed in the ships the men of most note after the commanders were these,--of sidon, tetramnestos son of anysos; of tyre, matten ninety two son of siromos; or arados, merbalos son of agbalos; of kilikia, syennesis son of |
thirty five. to return to the subject i was upon. what can be more childish than to assert that there are no such creatures as are generated in the red sea or in india? |
then achilles, fain to kill him, hurled his spear at asteropaeus, but failed to hit him and struck the steep bank of the river, driving the spear half its length into the earth. the son of peleus then drew his sword and sprang furiously upon him. |
friendship of some scamps in return for my co-operation, but the certainty of losing in the tone of my acquaintances?" (eight) |
we may even allow a centurion or standard-bearer to be angry, or any others, whom, not to explain too far the mysteries of the rhetoricians, i shall not mention here; for to touch the passions, where reason cannot be come at, may have its use; but my |
calls it. where is to be the end of this trifling? |
as little foundation is there for the report that i am a teacher, and take money; this accusation has no more truth in it than the other. |
very little removed from none at all; and at last, in the dark retirements of sound sleep, loses the sight perfectly of all ideas whatsoever: since, i say, this is evidently so in matter of fact and constant experience, i ask whether it be not probable, |
this is a hard saying for the chinese, with their reverence for authority, and wei liao tzu (quoted by tu mu) is moved to exclaim: "weapons are baleful instruments, strife is antagonistic to virtue, a military commander is the negation of civil order!" |
so that, besides the forces composed of the citizens themselves, there was an army consisting of fifteen thousand foot and two thousand horse, and the money to pay these strangers was levied and brought in with great cheerfulness. |
had ever observed in him, that he should presume to make him such a reproachful offer. and he immediately wrote him a very sharp letter, telling him theodorus and his merchandise might go with his good-will to destruction. |
excess of not-giving. others again decline to receive their neighbour's goods from a motive of fear; their notion being that it is not easy to take other people's things yourself without their taking yours: so they are content neither to receive nor give. |
others security for themselves, and instead of their strength, which others might overcome, a right which social union makes invincible. |
the exaggeration in this statement was, however, so obvious, that the later stoics were driven to make a further subdivision of things indifferent into what is preferable () and what is undesirable (). |
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