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meanwhile he called a meeting of the toronaeans, and said very much what he had said at acanthus, namely, that they must not look upon those who had negotiated with him for the capture of the town as bad men or as traitors, as they had not acted as they |
should he become weary of his sublimeness, this sublime one, then only will his beauty begin-and then only will i taste him and find him savoury. |
but our second thought is that the hope of humanity is a common one, and that all or none will be partakers of immortality. |
for what is so unnatural as to turn to the ruin and destruction of good men the eloquence bestowed by nature for the safety and protection of our fellow-men? |
the wise man will see the several treatments suitable to several dispositions, and how what is crooked may be straightened. . . . |
person. what, then, is the upshot of all this? |
in their mutual relations, waywardness and chance have a place; for each person in the aggregate is autonomous: the universal of law is only postulated between them, and not actually existent. |
supposing he is so, would his happiness be less perfect if he had not two feet? |
'on the condition of not exceeding a single fall, i consent.' |
plutarch, apothegms of the lacedaemonians. |
and if thou dost not believe that which i say about the money, send some one, whosoever happens to be most trusted by thee, and to him i will show it." |
there was a time when i thought that i understood the meaning of greater and less pretty well; and when i saw a great man standing by a little one, i fancied that one was taller than the other by a head; or one horse would appear to be greater than |
when archytas understood the danger he was in, he immediately sent a galley with messengers to demand him of dionysius; alleging that he stood engaged for his safety, upon the confidence of which plato had come to sicily. |
assertion to make it be believed. for who can without any more ado, but being barely told so, imagine that the greatest part of men do, during all their lives, for several hours every day, think of something, which if they were asked, even in the middle |
comedies could never (if it had not been authorized by the common customs of life) have made theatres approve of their scandalous exhibitions. |
seven g. caesar, d. at limyra, a.d. four. |
theaetetus: perhaps, socrates, we may have been wrong in making only forms of knowledge our birds: whereas there ought to have been forms of ignorance as well, flying about together in the mind, and then he who sought to take one of them might sometimes |
also there are in this country three kinds of mice, one is called the "two-legged" mouse, another the zegeris (a name which is libyan and signifies in the hellenic tongue a "hill"), and a third the "prickly" mouse. |
and so they reverence and extol with the highest praises those men in whom they see certain pre-eminent and extraordinary talents; and they look down with contempt upon those who they think have no ability, no spirit, no energy. |
two hundred seven. he who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk. |
we have learned, though as yet imperfectly, that the individual man has an endless value in the sight of god, and that we honour him when we honour the darkened and disfigured image of him (laws). |
but in pomp and show. this world of ours is only formed for ostentation: men are only puffed up with wind, and are bandied to and fro like tennis-balls. |
little men, says aristotle, are pretty, but not handsome; and greatness of soul is discovered in a great body, as beauty is in a conspicuous stature: the ethiopians and indians, says he, in choosing their kings and magistrates, had regard to the beauty |
twenty six. thus fared the expedition against the ethiopians: and those of the persians who had been sent to march against the ammonians set forth from thebes and went on their way with guides; and it is known that they arrived at the city of oasis, which |
the tale of the grasshoppers is naturally suggested by the surrounding scene. they are also the representatives of the athenians as children of the soil. |
when he crossed from cyprus, he bade the galley which conveyed him come to anchor off the land; and, having ordered all the ship's crew to remain aboard, he took the boat, and was set ashore alone. |
let me tell you," he continued, turning to the court, "what the circumstances were; it is worth hearing:-- |
poverty of wit, and his rustic awkwardness. she, perceiving that his raillery was broad and gross, and savored more of the soldier than the courtier, rejoined in the same taste, and fell into it at once, without any sort of reluctance or reserve. |
besides, the gods not only provide for mankind universally, but for particular men. you may bring this universality to gradually a smaller number, and again you may reduce that smaller number to individuals. |
therefore, as we are bound to vote, and as servilius has already proposed a most just supplication for those letters which have been read to you; i will propose altogether to increase the number of the days which it is to last, especially as it is to be |
but this difficulty of changing the situation of the sensible parts amongst themselves, or of the figure of the whole, gives no more solidity to the hardest body in the world than to the softest; nor is an adamant one jot more solid than water. |
they, however, had already surrendered their city to their enemies, and destitute of all things, with nothing left but their clothes, met camillus on the way, leading their wives and children, and bewailing their misfortune. |
m. which, then, shall we do? shall i immediately crowd all my sails? or shall i make use of my oars, as if i were just endeavoring to get clear of the harbor? |
look at a meeting-house, or a court-house, or a jail, or a shop, or a dwelling-house, and say what that thing really is before a true gaze, and they would all go to pieces in your account of them. |
than which action, sylla never performed a braver, or with a nobler spirit, when, preferring the public good to the private, and like good hounds, where he had once fixed, never letting go his hold, till the enemy yielded, then, and not until then, he set |
converted, obeyed, out of reverence, not by obligation: their consciences were free, and their words and actions subject to none but the civill power. |
confucius replied, 'such an effect cannot be expected from one sentence. two. 'there is a saying, however, which people have-- "to be a prince is difficult; to be a minister is not easy." three. |
and as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. |
faithfull, which the christians stood in awe of. |
"he did not sacrifice his health even to rumours." ennius, apud cicero, de offic., i. twenty four |
judgment had no other seat protagoras believed that "what seems true to every one, is true to every one." the epicureans lodged all judgment in the senses, and in the knowledge of things, and in pleasure. |
first of tragedy writers; but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to the gods and praises of famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our state. |
socrates: and when he has got rid of his ophthalmia, has he got rid of the health of his eyes too? is the final result, that he gets rid of them both together? |
the tangle of good and evil can no longer be unravelled; and although they know that the end cannot justify the means, they feel also that good has often come out of evil. |
different from human qualities, they regard as incompatible with the divine nature. |
as for instance, "if dion is a horse, dion is an animal; but dion is not a horse, therefore, dion is not an animal." |
and as he lived in the pirus, he went up forty furlongs to the city every day, in order to hear socrates, from whom he learnt the art of enduring, and of being indifferent to external circumstances, and so became the original founder of the cynic school. |
children, and duty of parents, than any prerogative of paternal power. |
at the public charge, by a daily payment of two obols to every one, and leave be given to the children to gather fruit where they pleased, and schoolmasters paid to instruct them. this vote was proposed by nicagoras. |
he urged, that a peace should be made upon just and equal terms, such as alone would be a lasting one, which could not otherwise be done, than by reducing all to equality. |
for eighteen hundred years, though perchance i have no right to say it, the new testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. |
"turpe est, quod nequeas, capiti committere pondus, et pressum inflexo mox dare terga genu." |
the law could not restore life to my dead carcass: the loss was irreparable; which to prevent, the law of nature gave me a right to destroy him, who had put himself into a state of war with me, and threatened my destruction. |
he still persists his reasons to maintain; our pray'rs, our tears, our loud laments, are vain. |
dominion: they are free from any subjection to him, and if their former government be dissolved, they are at liberty to begin and erect another to themselves. |
pompey too. and some report, it was for this reason that pompey never employed cato in any matter of consequence during the whole war, but now when he pursued caesar, left him to guard his baggage by sea, fearing lest, if caesar should be taken off, he |
and therefore we see, that in assemblies, impowered to act by positive laws, where no number is set by that positive law which impowers them, the act of the majority passes for the act of the whole, and of course determines, as having, by the law of |
but a dying person is a strange being, and is not easily managed; he wants to be master of all he has, and is apt to use angry words. he will say,--'may i not do what i will with my own, and give much to my friends, and little to my enemies?' |
you are right, for it looked very much as if you knew him to be alive." "well," said he, "was he any the less dead when i reported him to you?" |
take effectively, and to work in such a way as not to fail in its object. |
year four hundred twenty five b.one hundred., or in any other. but plato, like all writers of fiction, aims only at the probable, and shows in many dialogues (e.g. |
such a provision is in opposition to the common notion that the lawgiver should make only such laws as the people like; but we say that he should rather be like a physician, prepared to effect a cure even at the cost of considerable suffering. |
ninety two daimona , sometimes used for deified men as distinguished from gods, cp. ch. one hundred three. |
round a globe of fiery seraphim enclosed with bright emblazonry, and horrent arms. |
longing pines. yet let me not forget what i have gained from their own mouths: all is not theirs, it seems; one fatal tree there stands, of knowledge called, forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidden suspicious, reasonless. |
the design, and began to change their order, to open and extend their right wing, and, as they far exceeded him in number, to encompass epaminondas. |
some there were who advised him to name the emperor as his chief heir, and so secure the remainder for his grandchildren. |
dignity, we are not considered worthy of equal honour? |
the patricians were content with such a truce and respite for that time, and gladly returned home, having for the present brought off marcius in safety. |
for although some philosophers have spoken with elegance, (since theophrastus sixty derived his name from his divine skill in speaking, and aristotle attacked isocrates himself, and they say that the muses as it were spoke by the mouth of xenophon; and |
man on whom he had taken his revenge, he was presently awarded ten attic minae, for having had the good fortune, by designing to revenge the death of his father, to preserve the life of the common father of sicily. |
to this we are led by the analogy of the present life, in which we see different races and nations of men, and different men and women of the same nation, in various states or stages of cultivation; some more and some less developed, and all of them |
three i do not here follow with exactness the history of the experimental method, of which, indeed, the first steps are involved in some obscurity. |
far as they agree in certain inclinations; and finally the law which holds for all without regard to their inclinations, etc. |
i mean to say, my dear friends, that there is no soul of man, young and irresponsible, who will be able to sustain the temptation of arbitrary power--no one who will not, under such circumstances, become filled with folly, that worst of diseases, and be |
the change appears innocent at first, and begins in play; but the evil soon becomes serious, working secretly upon the characters of individuals, then upon social and commercial relations, and lastly upon the institutions of a state; and there is ruin and |
and i declare to you that i consider that all i have spoken respecting the government of the state is worth nothing, and that it will be useless to proceed further, unless i can prove that it is a false assertion that political business cannot be |
but if we had copied others, and allowed fears for our territory to make us give in our adhesion to the mede before you came, or if we had suffered our ruin to break our spirit and prevent us embarking in our ships, your naval inferiority would have made |
finally, we should do honour to our name--we are not called the "tiusche volk" (deceptive people) for nothing.... |
those in the first two are associable with one another, and those in the first three with one another, and so with the other numbers; but the units in the 'two-itself' are inassociable with those in the 'three-itself'; and similarly in the case of the |
agesilaus's answer was, that the making of peace belonged to the lacedaemonians, not to him; as for wealth, he had rather see it in his soldiers' hands than his own; that the grecians thought it not honorable to enrich themselves with the bribes of their |
and these are the particulars of the lacedaemonian, the cretan, and the carthaginian governments which seem worthy of commendation. |
"again, it would seem impossible that the substance and that of which it is the substance should exist apart; how, therefore, could the ideas, being the substances of things, exist apart? |
of form: from eretria, which at that time was flourishing, came lysanias, he alone from euboea: from thessalia came diactorides of crannon, one of the family of the scopadai: and from the molossians, alcon.. |
actions of our body: having also given a power to our minds, in several instances, to choose, amongst its ideas, which it will think on, and to pursue the inquiry of this or that subject with consideration and attention, to excite us to these actions of |
there, within the mighty sanctuary, latona and diana healed him and made him glorious to behold, while apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the likeness of aeneas, and armed as he was. |
armament would have dared to attack us, or would have regarded hellas as a power to be despised. |
if of our own proper motion we made an armed attack upon your city and ravaged your territory, we are guilty; but if the first men among you in estate and family, wishing to put an end to the foreign connection and to restore you to the common boeotian |
eighty two of the shih chi we read: "t'ien tan openly said: 'my only fear is that the yen army may cut off the noses of their ch'i prisoners and place them in the front rank to fight against us; that would be the undoing of our city.' |
after frequent changes of place, he at last settled down on the promontory of misenum in a country-house once owned by lucius lucullus. there it was noted, in this way, that he was drawing near his end. |
that kind. and in this way it happens that demosthenes is at times able to speak with simplicity, though perhaps lysias may not be able to arrive at grandeur. |
one of heaven refrained his tongue blasphemous; but anon down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms and uncouth pain fled bellowing. |
there be a thousand such like examples; and the more they are, the less they need to be repeated; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. |
and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. |
the athenians, even in the lifetime of pericles, had already cast a longing eye upon sicily; but did not attempt any thing till after his death. |
for to speak or to hear others speak of philosophy always gives me the greatest pleasure, to say nothing of the profit. |
the one which relates to all things taken together, never becomes either greater or less; but the one relating to things in particular, does become greater or less, as the case may be. |
secondly, it follows that moral inequality authorised by positive right alone, clashes with natural right, whenever it is not proportionate to physical inequality; a distinction which sufficiently determines what we ought to think of that species of |
whom the evangelists writt his life, and actions, and his claim to the kingdome, whilst he lived one earth: and lastly, the acts, and epistles of the apostles, declare the coming of god, the holy ghost, and the authority he left with them, and their |
but it is too long a businesse, to reckon up the severall sorts of those men, which the greeks called thaumaturgi, that is to say, workers of things wonderfull; and yet these do all they do, by their own single dexterity. |
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