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fearing then lest i should be deprived of my power by my brother, i acted quickly rather than wisely; for it seems that it is not possible for man fifty five to avert that which is destined to come to pass. |
he bragged that he had never worn a gown that cost above ten crowns, nor had ever sent above tenpence to the market for one day's provision; and that as to his country houses, he had not one that was rough-cast on the outside. |
fifty one. and having driven him forth, he asked of the elder son what his mother's father had said to them in his conversation. |
would ever again see the sun rise." then penelope said, "nurse,one hundred forty seven i hate every single one of them, for they mean nothing but mischief, but i hate antinous like the darkness of death itself. |
being driven from the land by the one, and met in the sea by the other, he would give matter of renown and glory to them both, and the much applauded actions of sylla at orchomenus and about chaeronea, would no longer be thought of by the romans. |
one hundred sixteen aponostesein : some mss. have apanastesein , "he would not take away his army thence." |
against this fear is our chief safeguard, teaching us to obey the magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the injured, whether they are actually on the statute book, or belong to that code which, although unwritten, yet |
twenty seven. when, therefore, this fellow had begun to wallow in the treasures of that great man, he began to exult like a buffoon in a play, who has lately been a beggar, and has become suddenly rich. but, as some poet or other says,-- |
socrates: nay, i ask you, not from a love of contention, but because i really want to know in what way you think that affairs should be administered among us-whether, when you come to the administration of them, you have any other aim but the improvement |
but hulda the prophetesse had the supreme authority in matter of religion; which i thinke is not the opinion of any doctor. |
nature of man, and the beings around him, concerning what might have become of the human race, if it had been left to itself. this then is the question asked me, and that which i propose to discuss in the following discourse. |
where a man hath a great living laid together, and where he is scanted: all which, as it is impossible perhaps to find together, so it is good to know them, and think of them, that a man may take as many as he can; and if he have several dwellings, that |
says that he supports himself on the single recollection of past pleasures, as if any one, when the weather was so hot as that he was scarcely able to bear it, should comfort himself by recollecting that he was once in my country, arpinum, where he was |
ulysses sat by the fire, but ere long he turned away from the light, for it occurred to him that when the old woman had hold of his leg she would recognise a certain scar which it bore, whereon the whole truth would come out. |
the command-in-chief he left to timonides, and, mounting a horse, rode about the city, rallying the syracusans that fled; and, ordering up a detachment of the foreign soldiers out of achradina, where they were posted on guard, he brought them as a fresh |
for that which is capable of receiving the object of thought, i.e. the essence, is thought. but it is active when it possesses this object. |
therefore the knowledge of good and evil is nothing else but the emotion, in so far as we are conscious thereof. q.e.five hundred. |
as for draco's laws, they were published when the government was already established, and they have nothing particular in them worth mentioning, except their severity on account of the enormity of their punishments. |
in the pursuit of this sort of neatness gorgias is reported to have been the leader; and of this style there is an example in our speech in defence of milo: "for this law, o judges, is not a written one, but a natural one, one which we have not learnt, or |
attached, and one hundred. fannius and quintus scaevola, sons-in-law of laelius, two very intelligent young men, and now of the quaestorian age. two hundred ninety seven |
if they say the man thinks always, but is not always conscious of it, they may as well say his body is extended without having parts. |
juno did as he had said. she swore, and invoked all the gods of the nether world, who are called titans, to witness. |
not because he hates them, but in order to improve them: and to this he will add, "your opinion of me affects me with pain, not for my own sake but for yours, because to hate perfection and to assail virtue is in itself a resignation of all hope of doing |
the soul, during sound sleep, thinks, say these men. whilst it thinks and perceives, it is capable certainly of those of delight or trouble, as well as any other perceptions; and it must necessarily be conscious of its own perceptions. |
the ardent will advance and lay hold of truth; the cautiously-decided will keep themselves from what is wrong.' chap. twenty two. one. |
upon the whole, i am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves--that we have first raised a dust and then |
archeveque de paris, one thousand seven hundred sixty three; allee de silvie (poem), one thousand seven hundred sixty three; lettres ecrites de la montagne, one thousand seven hundred sixty four; de l'imitation theatrale, one thousand seven hundred sixty |
allows no free talking. when one have laid down my arms, and made peace, come back and make what speeches you please. |
they thought were good to them, they esteemed the angels of god, and those they thought would hurt them, they called evill angels, or evill spirits; such as was the spirit of python, and the spirits of mad-men, of lunatiques, and epileptiques: for they |
the athenians afterwards sent back artaphernes in a galley to ephesus, and ambassadors with him, who heard there of the death of king artaxerxes, son of xerxes, which took place about that time, and so returned home. |
consul, the other as proconsul, against the enemy. posidonius writes, that fabius was called the buckler, marcellus the sword of rome. |
as the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad-even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed. then he turned tongues of fire on to the river. |
in the phaedo' the case is stated in this way-that the forms are causes both of being and of becoming; yet when the forms exist, still the things that share in them do not come into being, unless there is something to originate movement; and many other |
the man coming afterward to demand the debt, pericles was so far from yielding to pay it, that he entered an action against him. |
i was also serenaded by a hooting owl. near at hand you could fancy it the most melancholy sound in nature, as if she meant by this to stereotype and make permanent in her choir the dying moans of a human being,-some poor weak relic of mortality who has |
accordingly pausanias went, and in words, indeed, professed as if he had been for the tyrants against the people, but in reality exerted himself for peace, that lysander might not by the means of his friends become lord of athens again. |
secondly, it may be objected that experience seems to teach us especially clearly, that we are able to suspend our judgment before assenting to things which we perceive; this is confirmed by the fact that no one is said to be deceived, in so far as he |
neither be ashamed nor admit himself to be a sorry sort of ruler was more extraordinary still." |
by liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may. |
indolent to make such acquisitions, and had grown poor without sustaining any loss, because, while they saw everything change around them, they remained still the same, were obliged to receive their subsistence, or steal it, from the rich; and this soon |
'i like his doctrine that what appears is; but i wonder that he did not begin his great work on truth with a declaration that a pig, or a dog-faced baboon, or any other monster which has sensation, is a measure of all things; then, while we were |
in fact, all the enemy's movements should be determined by the signs that we choose to give him." |
the opposition of cato and others strained the relations between the senate, who had control of the business, and the equestrian order, driving many of the equites over to caesar's side. |
in the fifteenth, in the forty-eighth year of the priestess-ship of chrysis at argos, in the ephorate of aenesias at sparta, in the last month but two of the archonship of pythodorus at athens, and six months after the battle of potida, just at the |
to all this one added four good looking women skilled in all useful arts, and i let him take his choice." |
so long therefore as we regard only the thing itself, without taking into account external causes, we shall not be able to find in it anything which could destroy it. q.e.five hundred. |
other monument of herself derived from the same work, that is, she caused stones to be cut of very great length, and when the stones were prepared for her and the place had been dug out, she turned aside the whole stream of the river into the place which |
now a body, says apollodorus in his natural philosophy, is extended in a threefold manner; in length, in breadth, in depth; and then it is called a solid body; and the superficies is the limit of the body having length and breadth alone, but not depth. |
and he used to say that there was no need for those who argued well to leave their hearers room to look about them, as good workmen do who want to have their work seen; but that, on the contrary, those who are listening to them ought to be so attentive to |
marcius was no sooner deceased, but the volscians felt the need of his assistance. |
take the child which mandane bore, and carry it to thy house and slay it; and afterwards bury it in whatsoever manner thou thyself desirest." |
lastly, the summing up, in which that which results from the entire argumentation is briefly explained. so the argumentation which has the greatest number of divisions consists of these five parts. |
'nay, diotima,' i replied, 'if i had known, i should not have wondered at your wisdom, neither should i have come to learn from you about this very matter.' |
enough, i said, of these civilities. it will be better that i should ask you a question: is the physician, taken in that strict sense of which you are speaking, a healer of the sick or a maker of money? |
and as in every number we must have unity as the foundation, so a phenomenon taken as unity is a quantity, and as such always a continuous quantity (quantum continuum). |
"as indian ivory streaked with crimson, or white lilies mixed with the damask rose."--aeneid, xii. sixty seven. |
forty three. in the critique of pure reason it was always my greatest care to endeavor not only carefully to distinguish the several species of cognition, but to derive concepts belonging to each one of them from their common source. |
quin etiam, si quis est paulo ad voluptates propensior, modo ne sit ex pecudum genere (sunt enim quidam homines non re, sed nomine), sed si quis est paulo erectior, quamvis voluptate capiatur, occultat et dissimulat appetitum voluptatis propter |
who make it their business to imprint in them this virtue of liberality, and preach to them to deny nothing and to think nothing so well spent as what they give (a doctrine that i have known in great credit in my time), either have more particular regard |
cleinias: pray go on, stranger;--compliments are troublesome, but we will show, not in word but in deed, how greatly we prize your words, for we will give them our best attention; and that is the way in which a freeman best shows his approval or |
ii.); but it is not limited by thought itself, in so far as it has constituted the idea of god (for so far it is supposed to be finite); therefore, it is limited by thought, in so far as it has not constituted the idea of god, which nevertheless (by prop. |
meantime the rapid heav'ns roll'd down the light, and on the shaded ocean rush'd the night; our men, secure, nor guards nor sentries held, but easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd. |
and therefore those, who by violence have at any time suppressed the power of their lawfull soveraign, before they could settle themselves in his place, have been alwayes put to the trouble of contriving their titles, to save the people from the shame of |
not place, vanity, excited by so strong a temptation, operates on him more powerfully than on the rest of mankind in any other circumstances; and self-interest with equal force. |
athenian: then, returning to the council, i would say further, that if we let it down to be the anchor of the state, our city, having everything which is suitable to her, will preserve all that we wish to preserve. |
proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honour); and would be maintained by no one who had the smallest conception how many of the persons in greatest repute with the world, both for virtues and for attainments, |
when the noise of approbation and applause ceased, cominius, resuming, said, "it is idle, fellow-soldiers, to force and obtrude those other gifts of ours on one who is unwilling to accept them ; let us, therefore, give him one of such a kind that he |
besides, no one ought to think that any citizen belongs to him in particular, but to the state in general; for each one is a part of the state, and it is the natural duty of each part to regard the good of the whole: and for this the lacedaemonians may be |
the question who is the better man, has no place in the condition of meer nature; where, (as has been shewn before,) all men are equall. the inequallity that now is, has been introduced by the lawes civill. |
on the ground outstretched he lay, on the cold ground; and oft cursed his creation; death as oft accused of tardy execution, since denounced the day of his offence. why comes not death, said he, with one thrice-acceptable stroke to end me? |
seem to deprive us of our best guide who have decided that there is nothing better for man, nothing more worthy of being desired by him, nothing more excellent, than honors and commands, and a high reputation with the people; which indeed every excellent |
the definer. for because of their obscurity, it is impossible to argue upon such terms; and because of the impossibility of saying whether this obscurity is due to their being used metaphorically, it is impossible to refute them. |
"whether the balance or dread scorpio, more potent over my natal hour, aspects me, or capricorn, supreme over the hesperian sea." --horace, od., ii. one hundred seventeen. |
thirty nine. of the system of the categories. |
should have been bestowed on the soldiers themselves if those men had lived who gained the victory by their death." |
one hundred twenty six. to this end came the great prosperity of polycrates, as amasis the king of egypt had foretold to him: one hundred eleven but not long afterwards retribution overtook oroites in his turn for the murder of polycrates. |
the science of dialectic is nowhere mentioned by name in the laws, nor is anything said of the education of after-life. |
but how each separate statement, and each part of a statement, and every dispute ought to be handled,--whether we refer to verbal discussion or to writings,--and what arguments are suitable for each kind of discussion, we will mention, speaking separately |
meditat. two. of the nature of mans mind, and that 'tis easier proved to be then our body. p. eleven. |
that i am a thinking thing . and tho perhaps (or, as i shall shew presently, 'tis certain ) i have a body which is very nighly conjoyned to me, yet because on this side i have a clear and distinct idea of my self, as i am only a thinking thing, not |
of the people whom i have just mentioned, and if, too, he can show that he has never been so influenced by any covetousness as to abandon his duty, or to commit any error of any description. |
for in a sense fire is an element (and doubtless also 'the indefinite' or something else of the sort is by its own nature the element), but in a sense it is not; for it is not the same thing to be fire and to be an element, but while as a particular thing |
priscus had served under taurus in his proconsular government of africa, and after their return charged him with a few acts of extortion, but particularly with magical and superstitious practices. |
her, and commended to her favor one of his men, who had most signalized himself in the fight, to whom she made a present of a breastplate and helmet of gold; which he having received, went that very night and deserted to caesar. |
such a hidden nature, which instinctively employs speech for silence and concealment, and is inexhaustible in evasion of communication, desires and insists that a mask of himself shall occupy his place in the hearts and heads of his friends; and supposing |
seventeen. a wicked life has nothing which we ought to speak of or glory in; nor has that life which is neither happy nor miserable. but there is a kind of life that admits of being spoken of, and gloried in, and boasted of, as epaminondas saith, |
lacedaemonians; and the instant that they returned home they broke off the alliance which had been made against the mede, and allied themselves with sparta's enemy argos; each of the contracting parties taking the same oaths and making the same alliance |
entire circle of the natural philosophy; those, on the other hand, who are not yet arrived at perfection, and who have not been able to hear me lecture on these subjects, will be able in their minds to run over the main of the essential notions, and to |
just as the entire body is commanded by the mind, and although the body be so much larger and more beautiful while the mind is impalpable and hidden, and we are not certain as to where it is concealed, yet the hands, feet, and eyes work for it, the skin |
fourteen. as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind. |
of gold, until they should have won back thyrea. the lacedemonians however laid down for themselves the opposite law to this, namely that they should wear long hair from that time forward, whereas before that time they had not their hair long. |
belly, who has resolutely established this doctrine in his soul--"that the colic, and all other pains and diseases, are indifferent things, not having the power to abate any thing of the sovereign felicity wherein the wise man is seated by his virtue." |
and metellus, being forced shamefully to raise the siege, withdrew amidst the laughter and contempt of the spaniards; while sertorius became yet more the object of their esteem and admiration. |
in every act of sense there is a latent perception of space, of which we only become conscious when objects are withdrawn from it. there are various ways in which we may trace the connexion between them. |
sixteen. "the just man is the freest of all men from disquietude; but the unjust man is a perpetual prey to it. |
should be glad to know what you think of that book, balbus. one? says he. |
of legislators and guardians, for which he is unfitted, and either to take the implements or the duties of the other; or when one man is trader, legislator, and warrior all in one, then i think you will agree with me in saying that this interchange and |
and you are annoyed because you are ignorant how what is best for you happens to you and to the universe, as far as the laws of the common creation admit. |
athenian: consequent upon this freedom comes the other freedom, of disobedience to rulers (compare republic); and then the attempt to escape the control and exhortation of father, mother, elders, and when near the end, the control of the laws also; and at |
and it is said that anaxagoras foretold, that the occurrence of a slip or shake among the bodies fixed in the heavens, dislodging any one of them, would be followed by the fall of the whole of them. |
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