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if synthetical propositions a priori be granted as possible, or if, in case they actually occur, their possibility is to be comprehended and determined beforehand. |
and i will afterwards give thee time and leisure to answer. thou knowest, cinna,-- this passage, borrowed from seneca, has been paraphrased in verse by corneille. see nodier, questions de la literature llgale, one thousand eight hundred twenty eight, pp. |
month shall include the summer solstice. all purchases and exchanges are to be made in the agora, and paid for on the spot; the law will not allow credit to be given. no law shall protect the money subscribed for clubs. |
world, or society at large. the great majority of good actions are intended, not for the benefit of the world, but for that of individuals, of which the good of the world is made up; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions |
uncertainty and variableness of human affairs could not bear a steady fixed rule: for it not being possible, that the first framers of the government should, by any foresight, be so much masters of future events, as to be able to prefix so just periods of |
at the same time, how "i who think" is distinct from the "i" which intuites itself (other modes of intuition being cogitable as at least possible), and yet one and the same with this latter as the same subject; how, therefore, i am able to say: "i, as an |
bring over many of his fellow-citizens to the party of the barbarians; much mistaking the man, who, already before the decree, was exerting himself to excite and encourage the greeks to the defense of their liberty. |
decorations, their age, and attire; yet the egyptians, the syrians, and almost all barbarous nations, ninety one are without such distinctions. |
not so very safe for him to use. for it was very plain that aratus was much troubled at several things, as appeared by the business about the statues. |
none of you want to enter into the death-boat! how should ye then be world-weary ones! |
the custom which is already established, or the laws which are proposed in that treatise? |
rome also and greece have produced many illustrious men, who we cannot believe were so without the assistance of the deity; which is the reason that the poets, homer in particular, joined their chief heroes--ulysses, agamemnon, diomedes, achilles--to |
for instance: every thing belongs to the gods; and the gods are friends to the wise; and all the property of friends is held in common; therefore everything belongs to the wise. |
dwelt in sicily, as became his great descent and his fortunes. |
fifty six leuctris, hinc noster cocles baldwin, edd.; leutris stercocles a b h a b; leutrister chodes c; leutris stercodes fifty. |
instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost. |
the fault each man commits in detaching his interest from the common interest is that of changing the state of the question, and answering something different from what he is asked. |
bring upon the state, might be expiated by transferring the curse on him, who was the occasion of it. of those who passed the rhine, there were four hundred thousand cut off; those few who escaped were sheltered by the sugambri, a people of germany. |
as possible. the nature of a circle is such that if any number of straight lines intersect within it, the rectangles formed by their segments will be equal to one another; thus, infinite equal rectangles are contained in a circle. |
him who now turneth sick, the evil overtaketh which is now the evil: he seeketh to cause pain with that which causeth him pain. but there have been other ages, and another evil and good. |
famine, and the general revolution which follows famine. what must then have been the feelings of those who had the charge of supplying the city with corn, who were in danger of stoning, of fire and sword, of gaius himself? |
false, and that it is by the same instruments that so often give themselves the lie and are so often deceived. |
aristotle here holds the balance between a misleading hope of reducing the subject-matter of conduct to a few simple rigorous abstract principles, with conclusions necessarily issuing from them, and the view that it is the field of operation of |
sombre garb and silence meet: dress for every dame--discreet. |
from jupiter to him, seeing that they both were great, and had the name of kings. |
(three) see grote, "plato," i. four hundred sixty five foll. |
ulysses was glad when he heard the omens conveyed to him by the woman's speech, and by the thunder, for he knew they meant that he should avenge himself on the suitors. |
quodsi, qui proscribunt villam bonam beneque aedificatam, non existimantur fefellisse, etiamsi illa nec bona est nec aedificata ratione, multo minus, qui domum non laudarunt. ubi enim iudicium emptoris est, ibi fraus venditoris quae potest esse? |
stiff-necked and artful, like the ass, have ye always been, as the advocates of the people. |
you have not done well to publish your books of oral doctrine; for what is there now that we excel others in, if those things which we have been particularly instructed in be laid open to all? |
humours, manners, customs, and laws of those nations where he has been, and that we may whet and sharpen our wits by rubbing them against those of others. |
but let us come to my subject: what has the act of generation, so natural, so necessary, and so just, done to men, to be a thing not to be spoken of without blushing, and to be excluded from all serious and moderate discourse? |
three hundred fourteen rhodios c, edd.; rhodius b h a b. |
and speusippus made still more kinds of substance, beginning with the one, and assuming principles for each kind of substance, one for numbers, another for spatial magnitudes, and then another for the soul; and by going on in this way he multiplies the |
who? give (name) to me one that i may see the man whom i have long been looking for, who is truly noble and ingenuous, whether young or old; name him. |
the master were voluntary or no; otherwise, that it would be of as ill example to hinder him as to kill him, forasmuch as: |
to call any one blest is, it may be added, the same thing as to call him happy; but these are not the same thing as to bestow praise and encomium upon him; the two latter are a part of 'calling happy', just as goodness is a part of happiness. |
not but what echecles was also a pupil of theombrotus; and menedemus, of whom we shall speak hereafter, was his pupil. menippus, of sinope, too, was a very eminent person in his school. |
and thus, 'tis true, the paternal is a natural government, but not at all extending itself to the ends and jurisdictions of that which is political. |
on receiving this information, lucius apronius, successor to camillus, alarmed more by the dishonour of his own men than by the glory of the enemy, ventured on a deed quite exceptional at that time and derived from old tradition. |
o zarathustra, i seek a genuine one, a right one, a simple one, an unequivocal one, a man of perfect honesty, a vessel of wisdom, a saint of knowledge, a great man! |
and, as vologeses had not pressed his advantage with much vigour, paetus once again, with vain confidence, posted three thousand chosen infantry on the adjacent ridge of the taurus, in order to bar the king's passage. |
"stranger," said she, "rise and let us be going back to the town; i will introduce you at the house of my excellent father, where i can tell you that you will meet all the best people among the phaeacians. |
ut enim, quod turpe est, id, quamvis occultetur, tamen honestum fieri nullo modo potest, sic, quod honestum non est, id utile ut sit, effici non potest adversante et repugnante natura. |
"nihil est tam utile, quod intransitu prosit." |
cannot be sure that it exactly answers all that are in that substance. |
let what i here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me, myself beforehand condemning as absurd and impious, if anything shall be found, through ignorance or inadvertency, couched in this rhapsody, |
dionysius, cunningly taking the advantage of his mistake, seemed to understand him very well, and returning towards the city, led him on, still talking, without any suspicion. |
five hundred seventy six. in the second syllogism this appearance is so far superseded, that that syllogism is the standpoint of the mind itself, which-as the mediating agent in the process-presupposes nature and couples it with the logical principle. |
the young men appearing fearful, and unwilling to do the murder, she chid them, and angrily vowed she would wake alexander, and discover the conspiracy; and so, with a lamp in her hand, she conducted them in, they being both ashamed and afraid, and |
i know not, if by stress of weather driv'n, or was their fatal course dispos'd by heav'n; at last they landed, where from far your eyes may view the turrets of new carthage rise; there bought a space of ground, which byrsa call'd, from the bull's hide, |
driving, to be no longer fit for this from thenceforth: for from that time forward egypt, though it is plain land, has become all unfit for riding and driving, and the cause has been these channels, which are many and run in all directions. |
they thus deprive us of the grand revelation which we obtain through practical reason by means of the moral law, the revelation, namely, of a supersensible world by the realization of the otherwise transcendent concept of freedom, and by this deprive us |
davidson, aristotle and ancient educational ideals (great educators), one thousand eight hundred ninety two. |
prop. fifty. anything whatever can be, accidentally, a cause of hope or fear. |
three. it is said, that at the time of the passage of the hellespont by xerxes, he was twenty years old, and that he lived to the age of seventy-two. |
which may be such that their result is not the same, if it is in the one of these modes at we must explain it, as it would be if it were to be explained in the other. |
volumnius put away his request, and several others did the like; and someone saying, that there was no staying there, but they needs must fly, brutus, rising up, said, "yes, indeed, we must fly, but not with our feet, but with our hands." |
the return of xanthippe and his children indicates that the philosopher is not 'made of oak or rock.' |
seventy one anaktoron , a usual name for the temple of demeter and persephone at eleusis. |
scarce had he said, the prophetess began: "what hopes delude thee, miserable man? think'st thou, thus unintomb'd, to cross the floods, to view the furies and infernal gods, and visit, without leave, the dark abodes? |
he came so unexpectedly that none of us knew him, not even the older ones among us, and we reviled him and threw things at him. |
the syracusans had now gained a decisive victory at sea, where until now they had feared the reinforcement brought by demosthenes, and deep, in consequence, was the despondency of the athenians, and great their disappointment, and greater still their |
of human actions; in short, when any one speaks "badly"--and not even "ill"--of man, then ought the lover of knowledge to hearken attentively and diligently; he ought, in general, to have an open ear wherever there is talk without indignation. |
the names dialectic and rhetoric are passing out of use; we hardly examine seriously into their nature and limits, and probably the arts both of speaking and of conversation have been unduly neglected by us. |
appear most charming in his eyes. thus, whilst caesar in rome was wearing out his strength amidst seditions and wars, antony, with nothing to do amidst the enjoyments of peace, let his passions carry him easily back to the old course of life that was |
indeed, ease and quiet, and the study of pleasant and speculative learning, to an old man retiring from command and office, is a most suitable and becoming solace; but to misguide virtuous actions to pleasure as their utmost end, and, as the conclusion of |
enemy. but if a man, besides the obligation of a subject, hath taken upon him a new obligation of a souldier, then he hath not the liberty to submit to a new power, as long as the old one keeps the field, and giveth him means of subsistence, either in his |
whilst they were afraid of stopping a dysentery, lest they should put the patient into a fever, they killed me a friend, -- estienne de la boetie. --who was worth more than the whole of them. |
meanwhile the senate was summoned, and prayers rehearsed by the consuls and priests for the emperor's recovery, though the lifeless body was being wrapped in blankets with warm applications, while all was being arranged to establish nero on the throne. |
i shall not ask whether his long nails were at first, as aristotle supposes, only crooked talons; whether his whole body, like that of a bear, was not covered with hair; or whether the fact that he walked upon all fours, with his looks directed toward the |
therefore those of pompey's party, fearing this inflexible constancy in cato, by which he kept with him the whole senate, lest by this he should likewise pervert and draw after him all the well-affected part of the commonalty, resolved to withstand |
at the concurrence of so many odd circumstances, but should not have the least inclination to believe so miraculous an event. |
it was this clemency which made him end his days in safety and security: this it was which rendered him popular and beloved, although he had laid his hands on the neck of the romans when they were still unused to bearing the yoke: this gives him even at |
we must now say what are 'definition', 'property', 'genus', and 'accident'. a 'definition' is a phrase signifying a thing's essence. |
would not suffer it to be according as the mantineian demonax had arranged, but asked to have back the royal rights of his forefathers. after this, stirring up strife he was worsted and went as an exile to samos, and his mother to salamis in cyprus. |
that i bade thee sing,-say now, say: which of us now-oweth thanks?- better still, however: sing unto me, sing, o my soul! and let me thank thee!- |
early philosophers, like anaxagoras and metrodorus, had found in homer and mythology hidden meanings. |
each party took up its position upon a hill, and the argives prepared to engage the lacedaemonians while they were alone; but agis eluded them by breaking up his camp in the night, and proceeded to join the rest of the allies at phlius. |
the king himself had the reputation of a wise man, and at his first interview with alexander, he spoke to him in these terms: "to what purpose," said he, "should we make war upon one another, if the design of your coming into these parts be not to rob us |
power must be in the laws, and not in men; for as they are far removed from a monarchical government, and have not sufficient fortune to neglect their private affairs, while they are too many to be supported by the public, they will of course determine to |
guided by word and admonition only. the other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow; he has a short thick neck; he is flat-faced and of a dark colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion (or with grey and blood-shot eyes.); the mate of |
the whole inclinations of marcus brutus, o conscript fathers, the whole of his thoughts, the whole of his ideas, are directed towards the authority of the senate and the freedom of the roman people. |
forty six. and some men find fault with all this; men who are rather late in mending antiquity; for they wish us, instead of saying deum atque hominum fidem , to say deorum . |
after all this, why, amongst so many discourses that by so many arguments persuade men to despise death and to endure pain, can we not find out one that helps us? |
people do not all take offence in the same way; you ought then to know what your own weak point is, that you may guard it with especial care. |
the doctrine of ideas, which has long ago received the assent of the socratic circle, is now affirmed by the phliasian auditor to command the assent of any man of sense. |
to stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not? we can seldom go erect. |
inc. inc. fab., ribbeck two, one hundred eighty four-one hundred eighty five |
when then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true. |
i know very well that some wise men have taken another way, and have not feared to grapple and engage to the utmost upon several subjects these are confident of their own strength, under which they protect themselves in all ill successes, making their |
'where is-my home?' for it do i ask and seek, and have sought, but have not found it. o eternal everywhere, o eternal nowhere, o eternal-in-vain!" |
which they owed (for the milesians in former times had borne with the eretrians the burden of all that war which they had with the chalkidians at the time when the chalkidians on their side were helped by the samians against the eretrians and |
but this does not take place in every state, for, as we have already said, it is possible that all may be common to all, or not, but only common to some; and this is the difference between one government and another: for in democracies the whole community |
their decease. the proper time of marriage for a woman shall be from sixteen years to twenty; for a man, from thirty to thirty-five (compare republic). the age of holding office for a woman is to be forty, for a man thirty years. |
socrates: and the word "drinking" is expressive of pleasure, and of the satisfaction of the want? |
the physical destinies of a nation. but a nation, truly speaking, is there no more. the industrial order has parted into a mere abstract workman on one hand, and the grande richesse on the other. |
what is begotten is swifter, for it is carried to fro, and moves from place to place. |
but the more lasting nature of the soul does not prove her immortality; for after having worn out many bodies in a single life, and many more in successive births and deaths, she may at last perish, or, as socrates afterwards restates the objection, the |
it is, indeed, the most difficult thing imaginable to discern the soul by the soul. and this, doubtless, is the meaning of the precept of apollo, which advises every one to know himself. |
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