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naturae; a quibus non modo animi perturbantur, sed etiam corpora. licet ora ipsa cernere iratorum aut eorum, qui aut libidine aliqua aut metu commoti sunt aut voluptate nimia gestiunt; quorum omnium voltus, voces, motus statusque mutantur. |
but as soon as they had supped and night had fallen, the party under orders set off and occupied the mountain, while the main body rested where they were. |
this, by the way, is the reason why we do not allow a man to govern, but principle, because a man governs for himself and comes to be a despot: but the office of a ruler is to be guardian of the just and therefore of the equal. |
that vessels laden with stores were on their way to the athenians. |
mix'd with the first, the fierce virago fought, sustain'd the toils of arms, the danger sought, outstripp'd the winds in speed upon the plain, flew o'er the fields, nor hurt the bearded grain: she swept the seas, and, as she skimm'd along, her flying feet |
his own expense; and so, by mixing their waters with that of the other river, he sweetened the stream. |
and sayings, and therefore no persons ought to be more careful of their reputation than those who are certain to have a great one, whatsoever one they may have deserved. how many things there are that you may not do which, thanks to you, we may do! |
"to judge from these arguments, then, the principles of things would not be the genera; but if we know each thing by its definition, and the genera are the principles or starting-points of definitions, the genera must also be the principles of definable |
two. the soveraign of a common-wealth, be it an assembly, or one man, is not subject to the civill lawes. |
if the things are horses, the measure is 'horse', and if they are men, 'man'. if they are a man, a horse, and a god, the measure is perhaps 'living being', and the number of them will be a number of living beings. |
neither the spartans nor the magnesian colonists were permitted to engage in trade or commerce. |
army together whose business it was to destroy the tyrants; that therefore, if they remembered and resolved to persevere in their first purpose, they ought not to be too far from italy, but make what haste they could thither, and endeavor to relieve their |
according, to the grant of pausanias, continue to be independent yourselves, and join in freeing those of your fellow countrymen who, after sharing in the perils of that period, joined in the oaths to you, and are now subject to the athenians; for it is |
twenty five expetant a b a b; expectant h; exspectant c. |
and an art requiring as much attention as shoemaking? |
between the eleatic being or essence and the shadows of phenomena, the pythagorean principle of number found a place, and was, as aristotle remarks, a conducting medium from one to the other. |
these inhabit the part of sicily looking towards libya; the himeraeans came from the side towards the tyrrhenian sea, being the only hellenic inhabitants in that quarter, and the only people that came from thence to the aid of the syracusans. |
have been dispossessed of their property. to conclude, these colonies cost nothing, are more faithful, and give less offence; and the injured parties being poor and scattered are unable to do mischief, as i have shown. |
paragraph i. we, as well as the ancients, speak of the five senses, and of a sense, or common sense, which is the abstraction of them. |
it is possible to discover certain inconsistencies in the definition which comes nearer the truth than all the rest, which is to call mercy "self-restraint, which remits some part of a fine which it deserves to receive and which is due to it." |
that first and ancient deliberation of providence, by which she from some certain beginning, did resolve upon the creation of such a world, conceiving then in her womb as it were some certain rational generative seeds and faculties of things future, |
ringing as the note of a trumpet that sounds alarm then the foe is at the gates of a city, even so brazen was the voice of the son of aeacus, and when the trojans heard its clarion tones they were dismayed; the horses turned back with their chariots for |
catiline's conspiracy, was only and that stoutly opposed by cato, so that very sharp language and bitter menaces passed betwixt them in the senate about that affair; but it was the next day, in the forenoon, that the controversy was to be decided, where |
ethics, like logic, may be supposed to presuppose and to deal with a certain inflexible scheme of requirements, a world of moral order governed by invariable or universal law; an eternal kingdom of right, existing independently of human wills, but to be |
one hundred eighty eight five,two hundred eighty three,two hundred twenty. |
tell me, therefore, for the gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me in this way, and tell me also how i may sail the sea so as to reach my home.' |
being on the spot, disorders can be seen as they arise and can quickly be remedied, but living at a distance, they are only heard of when they get beyond remedy. |
(hence also all contraries which are different in species and not in genus are in the same line of predication, and other than one another in the highest degree-for the difference is complete-, and cannot be present along with one another.) the |
two hundred thirty one algesanta : some good mss. have alogesanta , which is adopted by stein, "had in his ill-reckoning returned alone." |
'and he who lacks something is not in all points self-sufficing?' |
a hundred times hitherto hath spirit as well as virtue attempted and erred. yea, an attempt hath man been. alas, much ignorance and error hath become embodied in us! |
he said to gyges as follows: "gyges, i think that thou dost not believe me when i tell thee of the beauty of my wife, for it happens that men's ears are less apt of belief than their eyes: contrive therefore means by which thou mayest look upon her |
it is compared also to leaven; to sowing of seed, and to the multiplication of a grain of mustard-seed; by all which compulsion is excluded; and consequently there can in that time be no actual reigning. |
but perseus, being told by his friends that he was much superior in number, and that men fighting in the defense of their wives and children must needs feel all the more courage, especially when all was done in the sight of their king, who himself was |
for i cannot persuade myself to ascribe to lycurgus so wicked and barbarous a course, judging of him from the gentleness of his disposition and justice upon all other occasions; to which the oracle also testified. |
yet i desire, even by profane words, if i may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints i have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law. |
these valour; those reason, these force; those the long robe, these the short;--divided betwixt them. |
but in view of the instability and perishableness of mortal things, we should be continually on the look-out for some to love and by whom to be loved; for if we lose affection and kindliness from our life, we lose all that gives it charm. |
a man had need have sound ears to hear himself frankly criticised; and as there are few who can endure to hear it without being nettled, those who hazard the undertaking it to us manifest a singular effect of friendship; for 'tis to love sincerely indeed, |
if primitive society is understood in the light of the state, the state is understood in the light of its most perfect form, when the good after which all societies are seeking is realised in its perfection. |
chapter twenty nine. of clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas. |
but if the circumstances which i have mentioned had no existence, still who would be so harsh and uncivilised as not to grant me this indulgence, so that, when my forensic labours and my public exertions were interrupted, i might devote my time to |
discourse and actions with others, acknowledged to be capable of rational conversation. |
if we had done so, not even would they have disputed that the weaker must give way to the stronger. |
our sight only but our judgments, and to adulterate and corrupt the very essence of things. |
but, as it is, we do but desire a deliverance equally expedient for them and us; only more glorious and honorable on the volscian side, who, as superior in arms, will be thought freely to bestow the two greatest of blessings, peace and friendship, even |
italiots, and do as they did. upon this the athenians now began to consider what would be the best action to take in the affairs of sicily, and meanwhile waited for the ships sent on to come back from egesta, in order to know whether there was really |
again, see if the term of which he renders the definition is a reality, whereas what is contained in the definition is not, e.g. |
of my money, but falsely, as others do new world: sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate nnone that less keep their promise(than physicians) no alcohol the night on which a man intends to get children no beast in the world so much to be feared |
to the infinite form of this truth the show purifies itself till it becomes a consciousness of it. |
could prove, but of which speculative reason was compelled at least to assume the possibility (in order to find amongst its cosmological ideas the unconditioned in the chain of causality, so as not to contradict itself)- i mean the faculty of freedom. |
the answer is that the non-existence of which is possible. |
i ask if lysiades, when summoned as a judge, should not answer to his name, and should have an excuse alleged for him that he is an areopagite, and that he is not bound to act as a judge at both rome and athens at the same time, will the man who presides |
there was the door to which i found no key; there was the veil through which i might not see: some little talk awhile of me and thee there was--and then no more of thee and me. |
yes, indeed, he said; i believe that he would. |
soon follow. iron, stone-masons, and everything else required quickly coming up from athens, the athenians started from the wall which they occupied, and from this point built a cross wall looking towards megara down to the sea on either side of nisaea; |
one has to thank them for invaluable services; and who is sufficiently rich in gratitude not to feel poor at the contemplation of all that the "spiritual men" of christianity have done for europe hitherto! |
and having taken on board a supply of soldiers into the galleys, out of achaia, then in league with athens he crossed with the fleet to the opposite continent, and, sailing along by the mouth of the river achelous overran acarnania, and shut up the |
but that i may explain the matter in a few words, 'tis certain that thought cannot be without a thinking thing , neither any act or any accident without a substance wherein it resides. |
the tribute of the cities, and with them, the cities too, to do with them as he pleases, and undo; to build up, if he likes, stone walls around a town; and again, if so he likes, to pull them down; their treaties and alliances, power, empire, peace, and |
there are people who have a notion that reciprocation is simply just, as the pythagoreans said: for they defined the just simply and without qualification as "that which reciprocates with another." |
(five) for the phrase "not a whit the more" see below, three. xii. one; "econ." xii. eighteen. al. "i should by no means choose to consider them wise and self-controlled rather than foolish and intemperate." |
the republic has marcus lepidus bound to it by many pledges. he is a man of the highest rank, of the greatest honours, he has the most honourable priesthood, and has received numberless distinctions in the city. |
when croesus saw this he deemed it to be a portent, as indeed it was: and forthwith he despatched messengers to the dwelling of the telmessians, who interpret omens: and the messengers who were sent to consult arrived there and learnt from the telmessians |
the chalcidians and bottiaeans came up and beat him out of it, with the loss of many of his soldiers. |
third persons were formerly called in to prevent disorder and foul play only, and to be witness of the fortune of the combat; but now they have brought it to this pass that the witnesses themselves engage; whoever is invited cannot handsomely stand by as |
i can more hardly believe a man's constancy than any other virtue, and believe nothing sooner than the contrary. he that would judge of a man in detail and distinctly, bit by bit, would oftener be able to speak the truth. |
themselves, company after company, with the arcadians of heraea at their side. after these were the maenalians, and on the right wing the tegeans with a few of the lacedaemonians at the extremity; their cavalry being posted upon the two wings. |
do we not also plainly see this, that all the most elevated regions are the best, and that the earth is the lowest region, and is surrounded with the grossest air? |
socrates: but whether rulers or subjects will they or will they not have more than themselves, my friend? |
thus the empirical conception of a plate is homogeneous with the pure geometrical conception of a circle, inasmuch as the roundness which is cogitated in the former is intuited in the latter. |
socrates: and does not he who thinks, think some one thing? |
he who seeks to know what is said about him, who digs up spiteful tales even if they were told in secret, is himself the destroyer of his own peace of mind. |
hortensius the orator. now it happened that she had been lately divorced from her husband. passing along behind sylla, she leaned on him with her hand, and plucking a bit of wool from his garment, so proceeded to her seat. |
euth. no, nor yet ignorance of carpentering. |
alcinous therefore said to his servant, "pontonous, mix some wine and hand it round to everybody, that we may offer a prayer to father jove, and speed our guest upon his way." |
in this aptitude of mankind, to give too hasty beleefe to pretended miracles, there can be no better, nor one think any other caution, than that which god hath prescribed, first by moses, (as i have said before in the precedent chapter,) in the beginning |
might he not ask, whether we 'care more for the truth of religion, or for the speaker and the country from which the truth comes'? or, whether the 'select wise' are not 'the many' after all? |
this error, then, must be got rid of; this opinion must be removed; and, as with regard to imagined evils, we are to make them more supportable, so with respect to goods, we are to lessen the violent effects of those things which are called great and |
nine. at last however the answer was given and the going forth of the spartans took place in the following manner:-on the day before that which was appointed for the last hearing of the envoys, chileos a man of tegea, who of all strangers had most |
eighteen. and i will endeavour to give an abridgment of the doctrines contained in these works, as it may be agreeable, quoting three letters of his, in which he has made a sort of epitome of all his philosophy. |
though yet, whilst he apprehends that the removal of the pain may translate the noxious humour to a more vital part, his will is never determined to any one action that may serve to remove this pain. |
they who are nearest gaul forty eight resemble the inhabitants of that country; whether from the duration of hereditary influence, or whether it be that when lands jut forward in opposite directions, forty nine climate gives the same condition of body to |
sixty three. it may indeed on some occasions be necessary that the author of nature display his overruling power in producing some appearance out of the ordinary series of things. |
three metamorphoses of the spirit have i designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.- |
remain that other question (which would rather be a test of our acuteness, than a proof of the existence of the thing itself), "how is the science possible, and how does reason come to attain it?" but human reason has not been so fortunate in this case. |
the field! jove, could'st thou view, and not avert thy sight, two jarring nations join'd in cruel fight, whom leagues of lasting love so shortly shall unite! |
why, epicurus, do we use any evasions, and not allow in our own words the same feeling to be pleasure which you are used to boast of with such assurance? are these your words or not? |
neither was it wholly without reason (upon the account of these ideas of qualities , which offer'd themselves to my thoughts, and which alone i properly and immediately perceived ) that i thought my self to perceive some things different from my thought, |
hinder me, nor will he hinder me, from doing according to the laws." |
seneca in his youth having warmly espoused the example of sextius, of eating nothing that had died, for a whole year dispensed with such food, and, as he said, with pleasure, and discontinued it that he might not be suspected of taking up this rule from |
the tragic poets, too, let us know the pivot of their play; if not at the outset like euripides, at least somewhere in the preface to a speech like sophocles- |
"if his legs fail him, he fights on his knees." --seneca, de providentia, c. two. |
man's social nature expresses itself in conflicting ways, in the clash of interests, the rivalry of parties, and the struggle of classes, instead of in the united seeking after a common good. |
being a free man, he is never let loose to the disposure of his own will (because he knows no bounds to it, has not understanding, its proper guide) but is continued under the tuition and government of others, all the time his own understanding is |
whereas it is evident the fixed stars have no such tendency towards each other; and, so far is that gravitation from being essential to bodies that in some instances a quite contrary principle seems to show itself; as in the perpendicular growth of |
they affirm that all things come into being either by art or nature or chance, and that the greater things are done by nature and chance, and the lesser things by art, which receiving from nature the greater creations, moulds and fashions all those lesser |
of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that i ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, i were at excessive charges. |
specific names, signify to others, v.g. man, horse, sun, water, iron: upon hearing which words, every one who understands the language, frames in his mind a combination of those several simple ideas which he has usually observed, or fancied to exist |
nine. aversion is pain, accompanied by the idea of something which is accidentally the cause of pain (cf. three. xv. note). |
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