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for it is plain that the prosecutor must consider, out of all the aims that can ever induce us to do wrong to our neighbours, how many, and which, affect his adversary; while the defendant must consider how many, and which, do not affect him. |
in this way--to diminish the majesty of the people is to usurp some of the public powers when you are not invested with any office. and then the confirmation of this definition is derived from similar instances and similar principles. |
it was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there. |
the things, then, whose matter is of this sort, e.g. stones, cannot be moved in the particular way required, except by something else, but in another way they can move themselves-and so it is with fire. |
galba now consulting whether he should go out, vinius dissuaded him, but celsus and laco encouraged him by all means to do so, and sharply reprimanded vinius. |
various the stars which deck his glittering head; his temples are with double glory spread; from his fierce eyes two fervid lights afar flash, and his chin shines with one radiant star; bow'd is his head; and his round neck he bends, and to the tail of |
and xl.); this i call reason and knowledge of the second kind. besides these two kinds of knowledge, there is, as i will hereafter show, a third kind of knowledge, which we will call intuition. |
or, again, he looks with admiration on the soul of some just one who has lived in holiness and truth; he may have been a private man or not; and i should say, callicles, that he is most likely to have been a philosopher who has done his own work, and not |
"as when a bull to usher in the fight, makes dreadful bellowings, and whets his horns against the trunk of a tree; with blows he beats the air, and rehearses the fight by scattering the sand." --aeneid, xii. one hundred three. |
two hundred one and afterwards took from augustus himself varus with three legions. |
she, therefore, often went to pelopidas, and, speaking freely of the indignities she suffered, grew more enraged, and more exasperated against alexander. |
valerius's friends headed the resistance, and the people cried out for brutus, who, returning, on silence being made, told them he had been competent to pass sentence by himself upon his own sons, but left the rest to the suffrages of the free citizens: |
the other, nor his virtue either so clean, entire, or steady as that of seneca. |
even if i granted all that i have been refuting, the friends of despotism would be no better off. there will always be a great difference between subduing a multitude and ruling a society. |
contrary side, boasted that he would make use of the very words and arguments of chrysippus to controvert and confute him, and therefore thus cried out against him: "o miserable! thy force has destroyed thee." |
overwhelmed with grief; but the son of tydeus drove off with the horses, and bade his followers take them to the ships. the trojans were scared when they saw the two sons of dares, one of them in fright and the other lying dead by his chariot. |
let not a man force a habit upon himself, with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission. |
and nothing or between a perfect being and no-being , that as i am created by the highest being , i have nothing in me by which i may be deceived or drawn into error ; but as i pertake in a manner of nothing , or of a no-being , that is, as i my self am |
this sort. they do much better who enumerate the different virtues as georgias did, than those who thus define them; and as sophocles speaks of a woman, we think of all persons, that their 'virtues should be applicable to their characters, for says he, |
and at other times it is used positively, and at the same time negatively, as when we say, "virtue profits us more than hurts us;" for in this phrase we intimate that virtue does profit, and does not hurt us. |
three commanders of the enemy encountered him at once, carinna, cloelius, and brutus, and drew up their forces, not all in the front, nor yet together on any one part, but encamping three several armies in a circle about him, they resolved to encompass |
provided for him in an inn, and gave no disturbance to anybody; but if there were no inn, then and in this case only, they went to the magistrates, and desiring them to help them to lodgings, took without complaint whatever was allotted to them. |
perswaded him, but the plagues forced him to it. so also of our saviour, it is written, (mat. thirteen. |
if he be inferior, if he be to be commended, you much more; if he be superior, if he be not to be commended, you much less. glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts. |
when this is apparent in any particular case, it modifies their estimation, not certainly of the act, but of the agent. |
speaks of the virtuous as the only citizens, and friends, and relations, and free men, so that in the doctrine of the stoic, even parents and their children are enemies; for they are not wise. |
and now let us address young men in the form of a prayer for their welfare: o friends, we will say to them, may no desire or love of hunting in the sea, or of angling or of catching the creatures in the waters, ever take possession of you, either when you |
without entering upon a dry and tedious analysis of the essential requisites of transcendental schemata of the pure conceptions of the understanding, we shall rather proceed at once to give an explanation of them according to the order of the categories, |
his father, julius antonius, was capitally punished for adultery with julia, and the son, when a mere youth, was banished by augustus, whose sister's grandson he was, to the city of massilia, where the name of exile might be masked under that of student. |
i ought to try, i said, since you offer me such invaluable assistance. |
such command no more respect than men of straw, or a lump of dirt. they have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. |
callicles: how tyrannical you are, socrates! i wish that you and your argument would rest, or that you would get some one else to argue with you. |
commencent ce quatrain, comme tant d'autres dans ce recueil, nos lecteurs, habitues maintenant a one'etrangete des expressions si souvent employees par kheyam pour rendre ses pensees sur l'amour divin, et a la singularite des images trop orientales, d'une |
one hundred ninety seven haud contemnunt quidem b, bt. two; contemnunt quidem nautiquam b h a p, bt. one, heine; contemnunt quidem nequaquam c; non contemnunt quidem madvig, muller. |
still having respect to the fortune which has in a manner favoured him, and to the providence which in pity to him and to the wounded man saved the one from a fatal blow, and the other from an accursed fate and calamity--as a thank-offering to this deity, |
the notion of an hour, day, or year, being only the idea i have of the length of certain periodical regular motions, neither of which motions do ever all at once exist, but only in the ideas i have of them in my memory derived from my senses or |
art thou angry with me because i have already racked language too long? because i have already counselled thee? but know that it is i, the ugliest man, |
the signal for massacre was therefore given to the soldiers, who had mounted the walls by scaling ladders. |
a sad procession in the streets is seen, of matrons, that attend the mother queen: high in her chair she sits, and, at her side, with downcast eyes, appears the fatal bride. |
eleven. cicero says that comedy is an imitation of life; a mirror of customs, an image of truth. |
after this was over, the peloponnesian war beginning to break out in full tide, he advised the people to send help to the corcyrseans, who were attacked by the corinthians, and to secure to themselves an island possessed of great naval resources, since |
there is a similar irony in the argument that the governors of mankind do not like being in office, and that therefore they demand pay. |
for if no a were b, then no b could be a. but we assumed that every b is a. similarly too, if the premiss is particular. for if some b is a, then some of the as must be b. for if none were, then no b would be a. |
crime. they arranged amongst themselves that latiaris, who had some slight acquaintance with sabinus, should devise the plot, that the rest should be present as witnesses, and that then they should begin the prosecution. |
youth is too inexperienced to balance such nice considerations; parents do not often think of them, or think of them too late. |
but wholly inactive in a sedition. this was the reason that he went from his own house unarmed, and withdrew when the battle began, and in all respects showed himself anxious rather not to do any harm to others, than not to suffer any himself. |
while the rose blows along the river brink, with old khayyam the ruby vintage drink: and when the angel with his darker draught draws up to thee--take that, and do not shrink. |
two. now the scythians put out the eyes of all their slaves because of the milk which they drink; and they do as follows:-they take blow-pipes of bone just like flutes, and these they insert into the vagina of the mare and blow with their mouths, and |
these two species of monarchies arise from principles contrary to each other: a kingdom is formed to protect the better sort of people against the multitude, and kings are appointed out of those, who are chosen either for their superior virtue and actions |
supremacy. having obtained from these efforts and these contests the feeling, as well as the fame of invincible strength, they at once reduced italy under their power, and not long after sicily too. |
one evening at supper, when she played the flute, demetrius asked demo, whom the men called madness, what she thought of her. demo answered she thought her an old woman. |
for, granting that the thinking substance in man must be necessarily supposed immaterial, it is evident that immaterial thinking thing may sometimes part with its past consciousness, and be restored to it again: as appears in the forgetfulness men often |
which springs from obtuseness; they are not disturbed by it in reading or thinking, because they do not think; they only smoke, which is their substitute for thought. |
these they just escaped, with difficulty, and when the tide changed and bore them the same way as the wind, they could not hold to their anchors or bale out the water which rushed in upon them. |
it them, or i commend them to others by whom i think they will be helped forwards on the path of virtue. the treasures also of the wise of old, written and bequeathed in their books, (ten) i unfold and peruse in common with my friends. |
for thus speak ye: "real are we wholly, and without faith and superstition": thus do ye plume yourselves-alas! even without plumes! |
of a different science? if of the same, the science of substance also must be a demonstrative science, but it is thought that there is no demonstration of the essence of things. |
ran away as fast as they could to aratus, who for all this despaired not, but immediately sent away erginus to dionysius to bribe him to hold his tongue. and he not only effected that, but also brought him along with him to aratus. |
as soon as it is possible to disobey with impunity, disobedience is legitimate; and, the strongest being always in the right, the only thing that matters is to act so as to become the strongest. |
thus sang zarathustra. but when the dance was over and the maidens had departed, he became sad. |
there is simple obedience in those that are subject to paternall, or despoticall dominion. again, (math. twenty three. two,three) "the scribes and pharisees sit in moses chayre and therefore all that they shall bid you observe, that observe and do." |
this sharpness and violence of desires more hinder than they advance the execution of what we undertake; fill us with impatience against slow or contrary events, and with heat and suspicion against those with whom we have to do. |
the day before this assassination, he supped with marcus lepidus; and as he was signing some letters, according to his custom, as he reclined at table, there arose a question what sort of death was the best. |
are its movements identical with those of the body, or only preconcerted and coincident with them, or is one simply an aspect of the other? |
o god, what infinite obligation have we to the bounty of our sovereign creator, for having disabused our belief from these wandering and arbitrary devotions, and for having seated it upon the eternal foundation of his holy word? |
then king apollo said to him, "take heart; the son of saturn has sent you a mighty helper from ida to stand by you and defend you, even me, phoebus apollo of the golden sword, who have been guardian hitherto not only of yourself but of your city. |
as soon as he was gone, he held his sword upright under him with both his hands, and falling upon it, expired with no more than one single groan, to express his sense of the pang, or to inform those that waited without. |
they would not resign what they possess more than he, for the most complete satisfaction of all the desires which they have in common with him. |
on the stage, however, the piece failed, the audience being offended at the oversight. |
put them all to the sword, men, women, and children, without mercy, if they did not restore him. |
nor did he only at first rise from inferior opportunities, but afterwards, also, met with greater impediments in the progress of his authority, and that not only from those who publicly resisted him, but from many others that privately conspired against |
five conscienti morsus--thus rendered by mr. pollock. |
trojans find the thickest throng, the ruin falls: their shatter'd shields give way, and their crush'd heads become an easy prey. |
so is there but one common intellectual soul, though it seem to be divided. |
"those legs of his curl just like parsley leaves " |
thetidium. some one told pelopidas, "the tyrant meets us with a great army;" "so much the better," he replied, "for then we shall overcome the more." |
but if they are not able to fulfil their promises, and, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them clearly discovered to be a false show? |
not of the herd beauty of stature is the only beauty of men because the people know so well how to obey become a fool by too much wisdom being as impatient of commanding as of being commanded being dead they were then by one day happier than he being |
my brother, when thou hast a virtue, and it is thine own virtue, thou hast it in common with no one. |
nothing but so many modes (modi of time). |
there is a kind of followers likewise, which are dangerous, being indeed espials; which inquire the secrets of the house, and bear tales of them, to others. yet such men, many times, are in great favor; for they are officious, and commonly exchange tales. |
the tyrant is the third removed from the oligarch, and has therefore, not a shadow of his pleasure, but the shadow of a shadow only. |
they also assert, that things indifferent are so spoken of in a twofold manner; firstly, those things are called so, which have no influence in producing either happiness or unhappiness; such for instance, as riches, glory, health, strength, and the like; |
and where do the multitude of gods dwell, if heaven itself is a deity? but when this philosopher says that god is without a body, he makes him an irrational and insensible being. besides, how can the world move itself, if it wants a body? |
are not the public who say these things the greatest of all sophists? and do they not educate to perfection young and old, men and women alike, and fashion them after their own hearts? |
them, "that i myself had been the author of what leosthenes has achieved for you, as i am that i gave you my own counsel against it." |
woe saith: "hence! go! away, thou woe!" but everything that suffereth wanteth to live, that it may become mature and lively and longing, |
cleinias: i will, megillus, when an opportunity offers; at present, i think that we had better allow the stranger to proceed with his laws. |
signes of contract are words both of the past, present, and future in contracts, the right passeth, not onely where the words are of the time present, or past; but also where they are of the future; because all contract is mutuall translation, or change |
and when it came to the question, whether these laws should be passed, and they perceived that the opposite party were strongest, the people as yet being not got together in a full body, they began first of all to gain time by speeches in accusation of |
as a mark one is not set up for the sake of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the world. |
hand, of the danger of its lasting if it is bad. and these are topics for a peroration. |
harp-player and a good harp-player, and so on in every case, adding to the work eminence in the way of excellence; i mean, the work of a harp-player is to play the harp, and of a good harp-player to play it well); if, i say, this is so, and we assume the |
the romans were celebrating their festival, called the lupercalia, when caesar, in his triumphal habit, and seated above the rostra in the market-place, was a spectator of the sports. |
both of them equally content with the change of their condition. |
verily, i have done this and that for the afflicted: but something better did i always seem to do when i had learned to enjoy myself better. |
and again they promised that they would obey. |
athenian: then the boys ought to have dancing masters, and the girls dancing mistresses to exercise them. |
so a philosopher who errs in the conduct of his life is the more infamous because he is erring in the very thing which he pretends to teach, and, while he lays down rules to regulate life by, is irregular in his own life. |
for my part, having always experienced the smiles of fortune, for fear lest the desire of living too long may make me see a contrary face, i am going, by a happy end, to dismiss the remains of my soul, leaving behind two daughters of my body and a legion |
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