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cherish, and, recoiling from no means in their struggles for ascendancy engaged in the direst excesses; in their acts of vengeance they went to even greater lengths, not stopping at what justice or the good of the state demanded, but making the party |
augustus caesar, having been tossed with a tempest at sea, fell to defying neptune, and in the pomp of the circensian games, to be revenged, deposed his statue from the place it had amongst the other deities. |
how they could best prevent the ruin of their cause, and meanwhile to sustain the war, and to contribute without stint money and all else that might be required from their own private estates, as they would henceforth labour for themselves alone. |
moreover, i think this also well deserves to be considered--that there is nothing in the special nature of money to hinder its being taken away from those who possess it against their will.' |
he had forgotten her, or somehow or other it had escaped him, and this was a grievous sin. |
but what is fair and what is foul; whether the terms are applied to bodies, colours, figures, laws, habits, studies, must they not be defined with reference to pleasure and utility? |
to acquire the conception of change, therefore, the perception of some existing object and of the succession of its determinations, in one word, experience, is necessary. |
ninety seven. while these were doing thus, the delians also had left delos and fled away to tenos; and when the armament was sailing in thither, datis sailed on before and did not allow the ships to anchor at the island of delos, but at rhenaia on the |
for this is the peculiar nature and power of the soul; and if the soul be the only thing in the whole world which has the power of self-motion, then certainly it never had a beginning, and therefore it is eternal." |
they believed that the existence of the world was divided into five ages, and in the life of five successive suns, of which four had already ended their time, and that this which gave them light was the fifth. |
the most sovereign remedy to cure it, is to do quite contrary to what these people direct who, in forbidding men to speak of themselves, consequently, at the same time, interdict thinking of themselves too. |
comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his traite de politique positive , aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political |
dismay'd, and fearful of some dire event, eurypylus t' enquire their fate was sent. he from the gods this dreadful answer brought: |
transfused on thee his ample spirit rests. |
atlas and auras and tibisis. through thrace and the thracian crobyzians flow the rivers athrys and noes and artanes, running into the ister; and from the paionians and mount rhodope the river kios, forty eight cutting through haimos in the midst, runs |
but where is truth? is it in your innumerable worlds, some of which are rising, some falling, at every moment of time? or is it in your atomical corpuscles, which form such excellent works without the direction of any natural power or reason? |
the essential unity of virtue-its negative character as regards all the empirical variety of virtues-is seen in the excellences required by the needs of war. |
four do you suppose that our dictator who granted an audience to the ambassadors of the samnites, while he roasted the commonest food before the fire himself with that very hand with which he had so often smitten the enemy, and with which he had placed |
timagenes, the historical writer, made some remarks upon him, his wife, and his whole family: nor did his jests fall to the ground, for nothing spreads more widely or is more in people's mouths than reckless wit. |
his aid; and, that her pleasing speech his mind may move, inspires each accent with the charms of love: "while cruel fate conspir'd with grecian pow'rs, to level with the ground the trojan tow'rs, i ask'd not aid th' unhappy to restore, nor did the |
and when brennus began to rage, and say that he was unjustly dealt with in such a breach of contract, camillus answered that it was never legally made, and the agreement of no force or obligation; for that himself being declared dictator, and there being |
he is his own critic, for the spirit of poetry and of criticism are not divided in him. his mission is not to disguise men from themselves, but to reveal to them their own nature, and make them better acquainted with the world around them. |
question to be disputed of as among philosophers, to see what opinion they were of, favonius declared his judgment to be that a civil war was worse than the most illegal monarchy; and statilius held, that, to bring himself into troubles and danger upon |
their only relief from misery was to quit an ill-omened and polluted camp, and, having purged themselves of their guilt, to betake themselves again every one to his winterquarters. |
for all the expectation and admiration of the hearer, and all unexpected terminations, contribute to the pleasure which is felt in listening to the orator. |
do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. turn the old; return to them. things do not change; we change. sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. god will see that you do not want society. |
(four) the site of certonus is not ascertained. some critics have conjectured that the name should be cytonium, a place between mysia and lydia; and hug, who reads kutoniou , omits odeusantes par 'atanea , "they made their way by atarneus," as a gloss. |
to move the affections, with their exordiums and perorations, to be taken away. 'tis an engine invented to manage and govern a disorderly and tumultuous rabble, and that never is made use of, but like physic to the sick, in a discomposed state. |
and by the same right that he concludes the mind to be a motion , he may conclude also that the earth is heaven, or what else he pleases. |
to have handed over to him. consequently, no one can do either harm or good to the wise man, because divine things neither want help nor are capable of being hurt; and the wise man is near, indeed very near to the gods, being like a god in every respect |
while kissing agathon, my soul did rise, and hover'd o'er my lips; wishing perchance, o'er anxious that it was, to migrate to him. |
at that time the daylight was not sufficient for them to engage battle, for night had come on; but they made their preparations to fight on the following day. |
sometimes a phrase is used neither ambiguously, nor yet metaphorically, nor yet literally, as when the law is said to be the 'measure' or 'image' of the things that are by nature just. |
every body, then, is mortal; for every body is either water, air, fire, or earth, or composed of the four elements together, or of some of them. |
let us now return to the enactment of laws. we have treated of sacrilege, and of conspiracy, and of treason. any of these crimes may be committed by a person not in his right mind, or in the second childhood of old age. |
and as there are three kinds of lives; the theoretical, the practical, and the logical; they say that the last is the one which ought to be chosen. for that a logical, that is a rational, animal was made by nature on purpose for speculation and action. |
again, it often happens that important business makes it necessary to part from friends: the man who tries to baulk it, because he thinks that he cannot endure the separation, is of a weak and effeminate nature, and on that very account makes but a poor |
and if this is so, he must also judge one thing to be a man and another to be not-a-man, one thing to be sweet and another to be not-sweet. |
the palace that to heav'n his pillars threw, and kings the forehead on his threshold drew-- i saw the solitary ringdove there, and "coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "coo, coo, coo." |
fantastical or chimerical, i call such as have no foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred, as to their archetypes. |
soon after this, the four hundred usurpers were driven out, the friends of alcibiades vigorously assisting those who were for the popular government. and now the people in the city not only desired, but commanded alcibiades to return home from his exile. |
he saw the trojan fleet dispers'd, distress'd, by stormy winds and wintry heav'n oppress'd. full well the god his sister's envy knew, and what her aims and what her arts pursue. |
(three) at first, as socrates noted, the young man by reason of his youth had not as yet set foot in the agora, (four) but if he had anything to transact, his habit was to seat himself in a saddler's shop hard by. |
his educational, his religious, his political and his ethical ideas are all inspired by a single consistent attitude. |
four hundred twenty nine. but on the inner side, or implicitly, the sense of self which the ego gets in the satisfaction does not remain in abstract self-concentration or in mere individuality; on the contrary,-as negation of immediacy and individuality |
"e cosi avven, the l'animo ciascuna sua passion sotto 'l contrario manto, ricopre, con la vista or'chiara, or'bruna." |
agreed with hortensius the lawyer, and sisenna the historian, that he would take his lot; and it seems that the lot directed him to the greek tongue, for a greek history of that war is still extant. |
the battle was now in array and they stood face to face with one another, agamemnon ever pressing forward in his eagerness to be ahead of all others. |
(three) the most conspicuous defect of the laws is the failure of dramatic power, whereas the republic is full of striking contrasts of ideas and oppositions of character. |
he was also thought to have shown considerable skill in cutting off the water from the enemy by some lines of trenches and forts, water not being plentiful anywhere else, nor very good. |
cease then to grieve for your private afflictions, and address yourselves instead to the safety of the commonwealth. |
here, too, we shall find the general will the best possible conception for the guidance of political endeavour for the general will is realised not when that is done which is best for the community, but when, in addition, the community as a whole has |
athenian: and out of this state of things has there not sprung all that we now are and have: cities and governments, and arts and laws, and a great deal of vice and a great deal of virtue? |
all these men discovered how at the cost of a small portion of time they might obtain immortality, and by their deaths gained eternal life. |
sent; or as a man should run over the alphabet, to start a rime. |
chap. twelve. one. tsze-yu said, 'the disciples and followers of tsze-hsia, in sprinkling and sweeping the ground, in answering and replying, in advancing and receding, are sufficiently accomplished. |
honour are allotted to this night, sixty two about this there is a sacred story told. |
it was in this land that the women perpetrated the outrage upon itys; and many of the poets when they mention the nightingale call it the daulian bird. |
the sixth is the son of alcmena by jupiter; but by the third jupiter, for there are many jupiters, as you shall soon see. |
flamininus, who overthrew king philip. the reason he had for his expulsion, was this. |
though they still may be (e.g. if the term 'object of knowledge' be applied to the soul: for it is quite possible that the knowledge of itself should be possessed by the soul itself, but it is not necessary, for it is possible for this same knowledge to |
"he grieves more than is necessary, who grieves before it is necessary."--seneca, ep., ninety eight. |
it is however, i think, a convenient opportunity for me to review the hitherto prevailing methods of administration in the other departments of the state, inasmuch as that year brought with it the beginning of a change for the worse in tiberius's policy. |
will become the most pernicious, if the relations in which it stands have altered according to the defects of the body politic to which it belongs. |
and custom received, and neither to wrest it, nor to introduce anything, of innovation. |
but, as the terms love and hatred are used in reference to external objects, we will employ other names for the emotions now under discussion: pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause seven we will style honour, and the emotion contrary |
honour to their city. and the cittians, in the district of sidon, also claimed him as their countryman. |
do you think it a matter of no consequence, (it is a matter in which i, out of the friendship which i feel you, constantly grieve in your stead,) that this should be commonly said out of doors, and should be a common topic of conversation among the roman |
make the oath of withdrawal from office, and then come down again. |
'tis for good and useful writings to rivet it to them, and its reputation will go according to the fortune of our state. |
"gratatusque darem cum dulcibus oscula verbis." |
and did not his will assure the necessity of mans will, and consequently of all that on mans will dependeth, the liberty of men would be a contradiction, and impediment to the omnipotence and liberty of god. |
is a painful idea. but he is not the less brave for feeling it to be so, nay rather it may be he is shown to be more so because he chooses the honour that may be reaped in war in preference to retaining safe possession of these other goods. |
at this point the hellenes endeavoured to cross, but on their making the attempt the water proved six to be more than breast-deep, and the river bed was rough with great slippery stones, and as to holding their arms in the water, it was out of the |
thenceforward laborious soldiers, who did their work silently without grumbling, had the name of "marius's mules." |
mighty bow of ulysses, and whomsoever of you shall string it most easily and send his arrow through each one of twelve axes, him will i follow and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly, and so abounding in wealth. |
many people become converts to mormonism for the precise reasons that they condemn the unnatural institution of monogamy. |
these we have now mentioned in general, but to enter into particulars concerning each of them, though it might be useful to the artist, would be tiresome to dwell on. |
forty one. we have already observed that nature has established connexions among particular ideas, and that no sooner one idea occurs to our thoughts than it introduces its correlative, and carries our attention towards it, by a gentle and insensible |
and what did they not find--in that innocent, rich, and still youthful period of the german spirit, to which romanticism, the malicious fairy, piped and sang, when one could not yet distinguish between "finding" and "inventing"! |
socrates: thus, then, the assertion that knowledge and perception are one, involves a manifest impossibility? |
chi got a rough idea of the art in its general bearings, but would not pursue his studies to their proper outcome, the consequence being that he was finally defeated and overthrown. |
the transcendental ideas therefore express the peculiar application of reason as a principle of systematic unity in the use of the understanding. |
archelaus, either quite unsuspicious of treachery, or dreading compulsion, should it be thought that he saw through it, hastened to rome. there he was received by a pitiless emperor, and soon afterwards was arraigned before the senate. |
for private men, when they have, or think they have force enough to secure their unjust designes, and convoy them safely to their ambitious ends, may publish for lawes what they please, without, or against the legislative authority. |
the law that it is impossible to affirm and deny simultaneously the same predicate of the same subject is not expressly posited by any demonstration except when the conclusion also has to be expressed in that form; in which case the proof lays down as its |
if thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. |
there may be good grounds for it when warm-blooded and superficial humanitarians cross themselves before this spirit, cet esprit fataliste, ironique, mephistophelique, as michelet calls it, not without a shudder. |
and above all, i said, and as the result of all, see how sensitive the citizens become; they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority, and at length, as you know, they cease to care even for the laws, written or unwritten; they will have no one |
one hundred sixty four. now this cadmos before these events, having received from his father in a prosperous state the government one hundred fifty three of the people of cos, had voluntarily and with no danger threatening, but moved merely by uprightness |
so iphicrates called callias a 'mendicant priest' instead of a 'torch-bearer', and callias replied that iphicrates must be uninitiated or he would have called him not a 'mendicant priest' but a 'torch-bearer'. |
the impulse given at these three periods has made europe what it now is. every single improvement which has taken place either in the human mind or in institutions, may be traced distinctly to one or other of them. |
but (in order that we may arrange this matter in certain definite divisions) every probable argument which is assumed for the purpose of discussion, is either a proof, or something credible, or something already determined; or something which may be |
soc. well, shall we see, then, how we may best avoid making blunders between them? |
"as aegean seas, when storms be calmed again, that rolled their tumbling waves with troublous blasts, do yet of tempests passed some show retain, and here and there their swelling billows cast."--fairfax. |
greatest bravery; but did not, however, allow him any prize, by reason that his virtue had been incited by a desire to clear his reputation from the reproach of his miscarriage at the business of thermopylae, and to die bravely to wipe off that former |
the scythian women put out the eyes of all their slaves and prisoners of war, that they might have their pleasure of them, and they never the wiser. o, the furious advantage of opportunity! |
when it is in the power of privileged delegates, the state is said to be ruled by an aristocracy; and when the people are all in all, they call it a democracy, or popular constitution. |
this hermippus relates, from pataecus, who boasted that he had aesop's soul. |
but it would be equally unjust to him and false to truth, to deny, that no one plea which can be urged for punishing anti-christian teaching, was wanting to marcus aurelius for punishing, as he did, the propagation of christianity. |
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