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during his absence. and they, being charmed by what he told them, wept and lamented, and believed that pythagoras was a divine being; so that they even entrusted their wives to him, as likely to learn some good from him; and that they too were called |
wherefore let no one be deluded by poets or mythologers into a mistaken belief of such things, nor let him suppose, when he thieves or is guilty of violence, that he is doing nothing base, but only what the gods themselves do. |
(fourteen) against the men of peloponnese; and that series of battles fought in the days of theseus (fifteen)--in all which the virtuous pre-eminence of our ancestry above the men of their own times was made manifest. |
in delegating the power necessary for the execution of its will, it is abandoning none of its supreme authority. it remains sovereign, and can at any moment recall the grants it has made. |
-deeper down into pain than i ever ascended, even into its darkest flood! so willeth my fate. well! i am ready. |
nothing is so distasteful and clogging as abundance. what appetite would not be baffled to see three hundred women at its mercy, as the grand signor has in his seraglio? |
despised, and only a mere form observed; so that the most important affairs of the commonwealth, even the wars, on which the public safety depends, are conducted without any auspices; the peremnia one hundred thirteen are discussed; no part of the acumina |
in the estimate of this work i have reckoned the difficulty which is especially considerable in that place; they did not build with any stones less than ten feet square, and had no other conveniency of carriage but by drawing their load themselves by |
absolute monarchy. as for the determinate number of twenty-eight, aristotle states, that it so fell out because two of the original associates, for want of courage, fell off from the enterprise; but sphaerus assures us that there were but twenty-eight of |
soc. then do you believe him to be a free man who is ruled by the pleasures of the body, and thereby cannot perform what is best? |
it was not till night that the legions returned, and though more wounds and the same want of provisions distressed them, yet they found strength, healing, sustenance, everything indeed, in their victory. |
socrates: although he is not a physician:-is he? |
twenty one. no innate ideas in the memory. |
socrates: and how did he entertain you? can i be wrong in supposing that lysias gave you a feast of discourse? |
some forbear it, not upon negligence alone, but doubting to bring themselves into melancholy, in respect they shall find it broken. but wounds cannot be cured without searching. |
might yet be crossed, and their late reinforcement might give them the superiority at all events on that element. |
besides a host of adverse senators there were the most accomplished orators of all asia, who, as such, had been retained for the prosecution, and to these he had to reply alone, without any experience in pleading, and under that personal apprehension |
the proposition ab by means of the middle terms one hundred and five hundred, the number of the terms will similarly exceed that of the premisses by one (for the extra term must either be added outside or inserted: but in either case it follows that the |
make the proclamation yourself, he said. |
thessalians, both which asserted the liberty of greece. again, on the sixth of boedromion, the persians were worsted by the greeks at marathon; on the third, at plataea, as also at mycale; on the twenty-fifth, at arbela. |
i know not whether it was the dumps or a budding ecstasy. mem. there never is but one opportunity of a kind. |
i do not intend with these to rank those others, who to clear themselves from all suspicion of their former errors and to satisfy us that they are sound and firm, render themselves extremely indiscreet and unjust, in the carrying on our cause, and blemish |
thus, as plato says, from steady soldiers he turned them into mariners and seamen tossed about the sea, and gave occasion for the reproach against him, that he took away from the athenians the spear and the shield, and bound them to the bench and the oar. |
reported this to dareios; and he bade them bring him forthwith into his presence. so having found him somewhere unnoticed among the slaves of oroites, they brought him forth into the midst dragging fetters after him and clothed in rags. |
on this very same day the athenians passed over into euboea and engaged battle with the chalkidians as well; and having conquered these also, they left four thousand holders of allotments in the land belonging to the "breeders of horses": sixty five now |
ulysses looked sternly at him and answered, "if you were their sacrificing priest, you must have prayed many a time that it might be long before i got home again, and that you might marry my wife and have children by her. therefore you shall die." |
as plato would say, the body does not take care of the body, and still less of the mind, but the mind takes care of both. |
thick as the chill snow-flakes shed from the hand of jove and borne on the keen blasts of the north wind, even so thick did the gleaming helmets, the bossed shields, the strongly plated breastplates, and the ashen spears stream from the ships. |
vis-a-vis he formed his line, passing the order to the captains each to form his company into sections, and to deploy them into line by the left, the captains of companies and lieutenants in command of sections to advance to meet the carduchians, while |
if there is to be any sense in embarking upon the question of the participation of private persons in public affairs, it is not a brutish mass, but an already organised nation-one in which a governmental power exists-which should be presupposed. |
c. f. what? what is your aim in a deliberative speech? |
life, and deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who first comes in the guise of a friend or hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family,-new-england rum. |
district hostile to his own. this guide told them that within five days he would lead them to a place from which they would see the sea, "and," he added, "if i fail of my word, you are free to take my life." |
and will not their wives be the best women? |
state, and he embodied in his laws the settlement of the tribute which cyrus promised,--thus creating a feeling of friendship and community among all the persians, and attaching the people to him with money and gifts. |
behind rank, as if the waves had planted them. there also i have found, in considerable quantities, curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of pipewort perhaps, from half an inch to four inches in diameter, and perfectly spherical. |
nevertheless, this public joy was mixed with some tears, and the present happiness was allayed by the remembrance of the miseries they had endured. |
(forty two) cf. dante, "tu duca, tu maestro, tu signore." |
while these things passed in achaea, dinocrates, fearing that any delay would save philopoemen, and resolving to be beforehand with the achaeans, as soon as night had dispersed the multitude, sent in the executioner with poison, with orders not to stir |
and also of the mental ones; his soul is to be full of spirit? |
for it has already been proved that if two things belong to the same thing, and the extreme is convertible with one of them, then the other predicate will belong to the predicate that is converted. |
and you may prove that they are like one another on the same principle that all things are like one another; and yet things which are like in some particular ought not to be called alike, nor things which are unlike in some particular, however slight, |
you, with those jaws of yours, and those sides of yours, and that strength of body suited to a gladiator, drank such quantities of wine at the marriage of hippia, that you were forced to vomit the next day in the sight of the roman people. |
again, there are some propositions which are possible, and some which are impossible; and some which are necessary, and some which are not necessary. |
besides, it will be impossible to prevent some persons from suspecting that they are brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers to each other; for, from the mutual likeness there is between the sire and the offspring, they will necessarily conclude in what |
two hundred seventeen. he who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear. |
all day long it will cry without its throat becoming hoarse;--showing the harmony (in its constitution). |
ethica: j. s. brewer (nicomachean), one thousand eight hundred thirty six; w. e. jelf, one thousand eight hundred fifty six; j. e. t. rogers, one thousand eight hundred sixty five; a. |
murranus, boasting of his blood, that springs from a long royal race of latian kings, is by the trojan from his chariot thrown, crush'd with the weight of an unwieldy stone: betwixt the wheels he fell; the wheels, that bore his living load, his dying body |
for the reason why the definition is rendered is to make known the term stated, and we make things known by taking not any random terms, but such as are prior and more intelligible, as is done in demonstrations (for so it is with all teaching and |
need i say anything of the friends of kings, when i show royal dominion itself so utterly and miserably weak--why ofttimes the royal power in its plenitude brings them low, ofttimes involves them in its fall? |
picture of the state of nature, how far even the natural inequalities of mankind are from having that reality and influence which modern writers suppose. |
the master was playing, one day, on a musical stone in wei, when a man, carrying a straw basket, passed the door |
agreeing also with our definition is the common notion, that the happy man lives well and does well, for it has been stated by us to be pretty much a kind of living well and doing well. |
in the former it is shown, that the senses furnish not the pure concepts of the understanding in concreto, but only the schedule for their use, and that the object conformable to it occurs only in experience (as the product of the understanding from |
he was comrade to hector, and they had been born upon the same night; with all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:- |
but it happened that in his return he fell into the enemy's hands, and was slain. |
could these things subsist, i say, in such a harmony of all the parts of the universe without the continued influence of a divine spirit? |
but this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy, which teaches us, that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception, and that the senses are only the inlets, through which these images |
moreover, can you conceive a stroke of good fortune more rare in itself, or more disheartening to your enemies, than that the power whose adhesion you would have valued above much material and moral strength should present herself self-invited, should |
the macedonians, as both a physician and a friend. |
for the science which it would be most meet for god to have is a divine science, and so is any science that deals with divine objects; and this science alone has both these qualities; for (one) god is thought to be among the causes of all things and to be |
the soul has greater part in the rest, and there are some vices that have something, if a man may so say, of generous in them; there are vices wherein there is a mixture of knowledge, diligence, valour, prudence, dexterity, and address; this one is |
five. he was very fond of theatrical entertainments, and very skilful in distracting his hearers by exciting a laugh, giving things disparaging names. |
we may conjecture by his poems, and one of his laws, in which there are practices forbidden to slaves, which he would appear, therefore, to recommend to freemen. |
which were foretold the christ should doe: that he was saluted king when he entered into jerusalem: that he fore-warned them to beware of all others that should pretend to be christ: that he was taken, accused, and put to death, for saying, hee was king: |
the rich inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing, and in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme. |
now in truth we ought all to agree to love righteousness and goodness; covetousness, which is the root of all evil, ought to be driven away, piety and virtue, good faith and modesty ought to resume their interrupted reign, and the vices which have so long |
as for the observation that machiavel hath, that the jealousy of sects, doth much extinguish the memory of things; traducing gregory the great, that he did what in him lay, to extinguish all heathen antiquities; i do not find that those zeals do any great |
the tragedy of the greeks is not 'rounded' by this life, but is deeply set in decrees of fate and mysterious workings of powers beneath the earth. in the caricature of aristophanes there is also a witness to the common sentiment. |
soc. and then the fact that the same heavenly power has provided us with fire (eleven)--our assistant against cold, our auxiliary in darkness, our fellow-workman in every art and every instrument which for the sake of its utility mortal man may invent or |
"thus having pass'd the night in fruitless pain, i to my longing friends return again, amaz'd th' augmented number to behold, of men and matrons mix'd, of young and old; a wretched exil'd crew together brought, with arms appointed, and with treasure |
nero, to win credit for himself of enjoying nothing so much as the capital, prepared banquets in the public places, and used the whole city, so to say, as his private house. |
rome, and having brought him a son, she was afterwards divorced for incontinency. |
that the things i see with my eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, i make not the least question. the only thing whose existence we deny is that which philosophers call matter or corporeal substance. |
according to thine ability do sacrifice to the immortal gods. (four) |
lord, your husband, and yourself, are both of you descended, and monsieur de candale, your uncle, every day obliges the world with others, which will extend the knowledge of this quality in your family for so many succeeding ages), i will, upon this |
the purpose is to discredit the prosecutor, who as a rule would have it appear that his character is better than that of the defendant, a pretension which it is desirable to upset. |
a certain man assailed one who had put on the name of philosopher as a cloak to pride and vain-glory, not for the practice of real virtue, and added: "now shall i know if thou art a philosopher if thou bearest reproaches calmly and patiently." |
but let us come to alexander, who was of such goodness, that among other things for which he is praised, it is said that in the fourteen years that he reigned no one was put to death by him without a fair trial. |
now is there not here a third principle which is often found to come to the assistance of reason against desire, but never of desire against reason? |
but there is i know not what sort of deceivour very powerful and very crafty , who always strives to deceive me; without doubt therefore i am , if he can decieve me ; and let him deceive me as much as he can, yet he can never make me not to be , whilst i |
furthermore i say, and lay my saying to your heart; when minerva shall put it in my mind, i will nod my head to you, and on seeing me do this you must collect all the armour that is in the house and hide it in the strong store room. |
it is possible that he may be a god, but if he is the man i say he is, he is not making all this havoc without heaven's help, but has some god by his side who is shrouded in a cloud of darkness, and who turned my arrow aside when it had hit him. |
the byzantines, thus surprised and astonished, while they all hurried to the defense of their port and shipping, gave opportunity to those who favored the athenians, securely to receive alcibiades into the city. |
more especially we pray thee send down thy grace on nestor and on his sons; thereafter also make the rest of the pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you. |
soc. i presume to turn a thing to its proper use is to apply it beautifully? |
thus we pass our lives, and consequently we ought to be sparing in doing what we have to do so often, and when we look back upon the mass of sorrows that hangs over us, we ought, if not to end our tears, at any rate to reserve them. |
"omnes eodem cogimur; omnium versatur urna serius ocius sors exitura, et nos in aeternum exilium impositura cymbae." |
at the same time, it must be carefully borne in mind that, while we surrender the power of cognizing , we still reserve the power of thinking objects, as things in themselves. |
he incessantly called out that they should carry him again into the heat of the battle, to encourage his soldiers, who very bravely disputed the fight without him, till night parted the armies. |
thee, it is right that i should expound to thee. thou sayest the dream declared that i should end my life by means of a spear-point of iron: but what hands has a boar, or what spear-point of iron, of which thou art afraid? |
and so also theseus proceeded in the punishment of evil men, who underwent the same violence from him which they had inflicted upon others, justly suffering after the manner of their own injustice. |
this heat is capable of causing any drop of blood that passes into the cavities rapidly to expand and dilate, just as all liquors do when allowed to fall drop by drop into a highly heated vessel. |
the evening of life is described by plato in the most expressive manner, yet with the fewest possible touches. as cicero remarks (ep. ad attic. iv. |
placed in the uncertain meaning, or deceitful obscurity of doubtful or insignificant terms. if, therefore, they mean by body and extension the same that other people do, viz. |
was it nature or art that had intenerated that great courage of his, so full, so obstinate against pain and death and poverty, to such an extreme degree of sweetness and compassion? |
should he not freely do what will gratify the beloved? |
the chief thing (the ruling thing) is inconsistency and confusion in the things which relate to good and evil. but different men have different reasons; and generally what they imagine to be base, they do not confess at all. |
emmanuel, the successor of john, being come to the crown, first set them at liberty, and afterwards altering his mind, ordered them to depart his country, assigning three ports for their passage. |
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