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as to those things which do not depend upon us, but upon necessity, such as hunger, thirst, and pain, those we cannot avoid; for it is not possible to put an end to them by reason. |
and the considerations which we have urged seem to show in what way these fifty years' old choristers who are to sing, may be expected to be better trained. |
what city could it have selected either more suitable for enabling it to act, or more faithful, or full of more gallant men, or of citizens more devoted to the republic? |
thirteen and of that there are five kinds which have been separated from statements of cases. |
and as strong winds will we live above them, neighbours to the eagles, neighbours to the snow, neighbours to the sun: thus live the strong winds. |
the deed would be betrayed by one that was sudden and instantaneous, while if she chose a slow and lingering poison, there was a fear that claudius, when near his end, might, on detecting the treachery, return to his love for his son. |
marius came forth with glory to the people and confirmed his law, and was henceforth esteemed a man of undaunted courage and assurance, as well as a vigorous opposer of the senate in favor of the commons. |
apparently need do so. by acting thus certain desires will rouse up our spirits, and yet being confined within bounds, will not lead us to embark on vast and vague enterprises. |
to say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true; so that he who says of anything that it is, or that it is not, will say either what is true or what |
she set up a great tambour frame in her room and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework. |
(one) he had no need to fear god's wrath, |
interest. and it was not we who set the example, for it has always been law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger. |
to shower, which of them rising with the sun, or falling, should prove tempestuous: to the winds they set their corners, when with bluster to confound sea, air, and shore; the thunder when to roll with terrour through the dark aereal hall. |
there are men also, who through that fault, which originated chiefly with hegesias, by breaking up abruptly, and cutting short their rhythm, have fallen into an abject style of speaking, very much like that of the sicilians. |
we help them to make use of this fine expression, of this fine sentence, which is none of theirs; they only have it in keeping; they have bolted it out at a venture; we place it for them in credit and esteem. you lend them your hand. to what purpose? |
achilles sprang from his seat with the lyre still in his hand, and patroclus, when he saw the strangers, rose also. |
but all i can learn of their conclusions amounts to just this, that "cato and brister pulled wool;" which is about as edifying as the history of more famous schools of philosophy. |
revealed themselves to me, and a radical distinction was brought to light. |
but the men of the city would not yet consent, and armed themselves for a surprise; their wives and little children kept guard upon the walls, and with them were the men who were past fighting through age; but the others sallied forth with mars and pallas |
conditions which understanding requires for the synthetical unity of thought is an assertion, the grounds for which are not so easily to be discovered. |
for there is nothing but these two things. is it because the mere separation of the soul and body cannot be effected without pain? but even should that be granted, how small a pain must that be! |
but if the members of an oligarchy agree among themselves the state is not very easily destroyed without some external force. |
sophocles . martius, o martius, thou now hast found a way to conquer me. |
of the whole bible; which was written for the re-establishment of the kingdome of god in christ. |
artificial, regular and methodical fortune. and after the cure is performed, how can he assure himself that it was not because the disease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance? |
concerning things which exist or will exist inevitably, or which cannot possibly exist or take place, no counsel can be given. |
if, however, he is too quick for us, go after him with your spear and hem him in towards the ships away from the trojan camp, to prevent his getting back to the town." |
have pronounced useless"-etc. etc. three in the year eighty eight a.five hundred., as we read in ch. |
but this argument, which first anaxagoras and later eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view. |
this is also apparent indeed from the foreknowledge of events, which we receive either sleeping or waking. |
those in the house. the terms 'two cubits long', 'three cubits long', and so on indicate quantity, the terms 'great' and 'small' indicate relation, for they have reference to an external standard. |
as to the spherical form of the hail, one may easily account for that by admitting that the shocks which it receives in every direction make all the angles disappear, or else that at the moment when the different fragments are formed, each of them is |
those who prefer a kingly government think that laws can only speak a general language, but cannot adapt themselves to particular circumstances; for which reason it is absurd in any science to follow written rule; and even in egypt the physician was |
"such do i declare my blood and lineage, but as for valour, jove gives it or takes it as he will, for he is lord of all. and now let there be no more of this prating in mid-battle as though we were children. |
for reflect--if women are not to have the education of men, some other must be found for them, and what other can we propose? |
as to the second, which consists in not having a sufficient esteem for others, i know not whether or no one can so well excuse myself; but whatever comes on't i am resolved to speak the truth. |
imagination qua imagination a matter of indifference; whilst reason qua reason also insists upon the truth of its content. |
fifty six. ninth objection.--answer.--but it is demanded that we assign a cause of this prejudice, and account for its obtaining in the world. |
it is not 'the ghost of the dead roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof,' but the legitimate heir and successor of it, justified by the ancient virtues of the romans and the beneficence of their rule. |
nothing can be done to evade death which they did not to avoid life; insomuch that brutus had much difficulty in saving a very small number.-- "only fifty were saved."--plutarch, life of brutus, c. eight. |
unto thee did i spring: then fledst thou back from my bound; and towards me waved thy fleeing, flying tresses round! |
cato stood up, and, contrary to all expectation, seconded this motion, concluding, that any government was better than mere confusion, and that he did not question but pompey would deal honorably, and take care of the commonwealth, thus committed to his |
for he that deserteth the means, deserteth the ends; and he deserteth the means, that being the soveraign, acknowledgeth himselfe subject to the civill lawes; and renounceth the power of supreme judicature; or of making warre, or peace by his own |
our idea of body, as i think, is an extended solid substance, capable of communicating motion by impulse: and our idea of soul, as an immaterial spirit, is of a substance that thinks, and has a power of exciting motion in body, by willing, or thought. |
the latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws, and to overrule every proposition brought forward, thinking that they cannot show their wit in more important matters, and by such behaviour too often ruin their country; while those who |
for, for us to go "according to nature," is no more but to go "according to our understanding," as far as that is able to follow, and as far as we are able to see into it; all beyond that is, forsooth, monstrous and irregular. |
ourselves that a man of sense should try to please not his fellow-servants, but his good and noble masters,' like st. paul again; or the description of the 'heavenly originals'... |
fame says that turnus, when his steeds he join'd, hurrying to war, disorder'd in his mind, snatch'd the first weapon which his haste could find. 'twas not the fated sword his father bore, but that his charioteer metiscus wore. |
i told him one day a little boldly, as i used to do, that he would do better to give us younger folk room, and to leave his principal house (for he had but that well placed and furnished) to his son, and himself retire to an estate he had hard by, where |
so that it was not so proper nor so honourable for that matter to be brought before a court of justice as for it to be chastised in that manner in which, and by that person by whom it was chastised, and lastly, that the case was so notorious that there |
of all euboea, which was of more value to them than attica, could not occur without throwing them into the deepest despondency. |
but for himself he encamped with the hellenes in the lowland country of the thynians, the natives leaving the flats and betaking themselves in flight to the uplands. |
socrates, who is attended by his inseparable disciple, chaerephon, meets callicles in the streets of athens. |
that on that account it is no great wonder if a man who in any affair has behaved basely, or covetously, or petulantly, should have erred in this business also. |
no desire, no fear, no doubt, troubles the air; no difficulty, past, present, or to, come, that its imagination may not pass over without offence. this consideration takes great lustre from the comparison of different conditions. |
some ascribe this to his natural genius; while others think that incredible effort and toil produced these, to all appearance, easy and unlabored results. |
observing that the enemy's division, called the brazen shields, were making their way up thither, sylla was willing to take first possession, and by the vigorous efforts of the soldiers, succeeded. |
when he had done this, the ships were drawn down into the sea, and xerxes changing from his chariot to a ship of sidon sat down under a golden canopy and sailed along by the prows of the ships, asking of all just as he had done with the land-army, and |
suppose that a friend when in his right mind has deposited arms with me and he asks for them when he is not in his right mind, ought i to give them back to him? |
thirty three. thus saying he refused to gratify croesus, who sent him away from his presence holding him in no esteem, and thinking him utterly senseless in that he passed over present good things and bade men look to the end of every matter. |
distend their paunches, and sweet intoxication never comes to drown the memory of the past, but mere saturation and waterloggedness and distention. |
but there are these five lights, as it were, which are common to both single words and combined expressions,--they must be clear, concise, probable, intelligible, agreeable. |
spiritless; whom you see at length within your reach, not because they have stood their ground, but because they are overtaken. |
existent in complete reality as well as in potency, because they have sources of movement in something in their joints; for which reason some animals live when divided. |
one. whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness. |
if they mean profitable to man as he is a rational man, stand thou to it, and maintain it; but if they mean profitable, as he is a creature, only reject it; and from this thy tenet and conclusion keep off carefully all plausible shows and colours of |
i praise god, madam, that it has been so well employed; for the great hopes monsieur five hundred'estissac, your son, gives of himself, render sufficient assurance that when he comes of age you will reap from him all the obedience and gratitude of a very |
stupefied by degrees; the patient, in appearance, being sensible of no pain, but rather troubled to be disturbed or awakened, like those that are in a profound natural sleep. |
the king, who was struck with horror at the rash precipitation of this execution (the treasure and movables that they had condemned to the flames being first seized), drawing off his soldiers, granted them three days' time to kill themselves in, that they |
and as solon may thus be said to have contributed to poplicola's glory, so did also poplicola to his, by his choice of him as his model in the formation of republican institutions; in reducing, for example, the excessive powers and assumption of the |
the hit about the tyrant being a parricide; the representation of the tyrant's life as an obscene dream; the rhetorical surprise of a more miserable than the most miserable of men in book nine; the hint to the poets that if they are the friends of tyrants |
down there, the pythian prophetess, whose name was aristonike, uttered to them this oracle: |
for in such an order of things there will not be much opportunity for making money; no man either ought, or indeed will be allowed, to exercise any ignoble occupation, of which the vulgarity is a matter of reproach to a freeman, and should never want to |
with the exception of the ten days occupied in composing the first part of this book, my brother often referred to this winter as the hardest and sickliest he had ever experienced. |
the legends which commit the daughters of danaus to an eternal penalty in hades are, apparently, of later origin. |
has the wine been getting into your head, or do you always babble in this way? |
and on that account divine. and that the sun, and the moon, and the stars, were all gods; for in them the warm principle predominates which is the cause of life. and that the moon derives its light from the sun. |
and now idomeneus, though his hair was already flecked with grey, called loud on the danaans and spread panic among the trojans as he leaped in among them. he slew othryoneus from cabesus, a sojourner, who had but lately come to take part in the war. |
hateful mode of cure to owe one's health to disease. |
nevertheless, at the first council which the young dionysius held with his friends, dion discoursed so well of the present state of affairs, that he made all the rest appear in their politics but children, and in their votes rather slaves than counselors, |
they are acquainted with the law between partners; they know what the man who has the management of the affairs of another is bound to do with respect to him whose affairs he manages; they have laid down rules to show what the man who has committed a |
as fresh supplies came in on either side, spartacus, seeing there was no avoiding it, set all his army in array, and when his horse was brought him, he drew out his sword and killed him, saying, if he got the day, he should have a great many better horses |
twice only movedst thou thy rattle with thy little hands-then did my feet swing with dance-fury.- |
their maturer years, most of them become strange monsters, not to say utter rogues, and that those who may be considered the best of them are made useless to the world by the very study which you extol. |
phaedo: he was quite beside himself; and i and all of us were greatly moved. |
full command of themselves and their principles; having all their faculties in harmonious exercise for their country's good. these shall receive the highest honours both in life and death. |
this appears, at all events, to accord better with the possibility of our gaining the end we have in view, that is to say, of arriving at the cognition of objects a priori , of determining something with respect to these objects, before they are given to |
polus is an impetuous youth, a runaway "colt," as socrates describes him, who wanted originally to have taken the place of gorgias under the pretext that the old man was tired, and now avails himself of the earliest opportunity to enter the lists. |
aristarchus said that anciently there were scarce seven sages to be found in the world, and in his time scarce so many fools: have not we more reason than he to say so in this age of ours? affirmation and obstinacy are express signs of want of wit. |
then you will soon observe whether a man is just and gentle, or rude and unsociable; these are the signs which distinguish even in youth the philosophical nature from the unphilosophical. |
there is nothing that so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favour with them; nor panderism so apt and so usually made use of to corrupt the chastity of women as to wheedle and entertain them with |
julius celsus, a tribune, while in confinement, loosened his chain, and having twisted it around him, broke his neck by throwing himself in an opposite direction. |
the wardens of the agora shall observe the order appointed by law for the agora, and shall have the charge of the temples and fountains which are in the agora; and they shall see that no one injures anything, and punish him who does, with stripes and |
certainty. sometimes he suffered incision and cauteries with so great constancy as never to be seen so much as to wince. |
madman, why should you try to compass the death of telemachus, and take no heed of suppliants, whose witness is jove himself? it is not right for you to plot thus against one another. |
let, then, honors, riches, pleasures, and the rest be the very good things which they are imagined to be; yet a too elevated and exulting joy on the possession of them is unbecoming; just as, though it might be allowable to laugh, to giggle would be |
these in his democratic days, when he was still subject to the laws and to his father, were only let loose in the dreams of sleep. |
i was one, amongst several others of his friends, who conveyed the body of monsieur de grammont to spissons from the siege of la fere, where he was slain; i observed that in all places we passed through we filled the people we met with lamentations and |
composition. for all things throughout, there is but one and the same order; and through all things, one and the same god, the same substance and the same law. |
itaque eorum ipsorum, quae aspectu sentiuntur, nullum aliud animal pulchritudinem, venustatem, convenientiam partium sentit; quam similitudinem natura ratioque ab oculis ad animum transferens multo etiam magis pulchritudinem, constantiam, ordinem in |
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