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i have hitherto chiefly instanced in the uneasiness of desire, as that which determines the will: because that is the chief and most sensible; and the will seldom orders any action, nor is there any voluntary action performed, without some desire |
if it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. for this is your business-to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another. |
thou see'st the foe secure; how faintly shine their scatter'd fires! the most, in sleep supine along the ground, an easy conquest lie: the wakeful few the fuming flagon ply; all hush'd around. |
for demosthenes could not resist the temptation, but admitting the present, like an armed garrison, into the citadel of his house, he surrendered himself up to the interest of harpalus. |
any fine entering wedge, and rout it in detail;-thinking to deal with it roughly, as one should handle a thistle. but they fight at an overwhelming disadvantage,-living, john field, alas! without arithmetic, and failing so. |
this we remark in the case of the artisan, but, ludicrously enough, do not apply the same rule to people of the richer sort. |
and here it will be proper to show, by arguments and by other similar means, that there are very many things so atrocious and so notorious, that it is not only not necessary, but that it is not even desirable to wait for the slow proceedings of a judicial |
for which any one does or learns anything: for it is not illiberal to engage in it for one's self, one's friend, or in the cause of virtue; while, at the same time, to do it for the sake of another may seem to be acting the part of a servant and a slave. |
socrates: and if one side of the figure be of two feet, and the other side be of two feet, how much will the whole be? |
it is through the hustle of commerce and the arts, through the greedy self-interest of profit, and through softness and love of amenities that personal services are replaced by money payments. |
should belong at the same time to the same thing. |
left to themselves, they now deliberated, whether they should stay where they were and have the baggage train brought up, or should return to camp. they resolved to return, and about supper time reached the tents. such was the conclusion of this day. |
plut. inst. lacon. two hundred thirty nine f itaque, quod apollo pythius oraclum edidit, spartam nulla re alia nisi avaritia esse perituram, id videtur non solum lacedaemoniis, sed etiam omnibus opulentis populis praedixisse. |
on the contrary, the rule of the understanding, through which alone the existence of phenomena can receive synthetical unity as regards relations of time, determines for every phenomenon its position in time, and consequently a priori, and with validity |
this much, however, i know exceedingly well; you were very kind to me as long as we achaeans were fighting before troy, but from the day on which we went on board ship after having sacked the city of priam, and heaven dispersed us-from that day, minerva, |
proletarian, became, as a labourer in the fields, a respected citizen. |
lu meng considered that the fact of his being also a native of ju-nan should not be allowed to palliate a clear breach of discipline, and accordingly he ordered his summary execution, the tears rolling down his face, however, as he did so. |
same time to give some reason for having acted so. |
marble may exalt your titles, as much as you please, for having repaired a rod of wall or cleansed a public sewer; but not men of sense. |
it can be easily understood, then, that of those who were brought in contact with him, the good and noble indeed were his well-wishers; but he laid himself open to the machinations of the base, who looked upon him as a person to be dealt with as they |
fn twenty one --whence is the birth of men, and whence their death, and what the majesties of thine immortal rule. fain would i see, as thou thyself declar'st it, sovereign lord! the likeness of that glory of thy form wholly revealed. o thou divinest one! |
antiochus had in his youth strongly written in favour of the academy; in his old age he wrote as much against it; would not, which of these two soever i should follow, be still antiochus? |
illiberally instructed by the care of my father, and inflamed with the desire of knowledge, even from my boyhood, but still even more familiar with domestic precepts and practices than the literature of books. |
but by maintaining a garrison instead of colonists, one will spend much more, and consume in guarding it all the revenues of that state, so that the acquisition will result in a loss, besides giving much greater offence, since it injures every one in that |
posidonius explains it in the sixth book of his discourses on natural philosophy. and all the other stars derive their nourishment from the earth. they also consider that the stars are of a spherical figure, and that the earth is immovable. |
he himself one hundred one then thus made his return back to asia. |
but this it self moves not my opinion; for certainly tho i were asleep , if any thing appear'd evident to my understanding, 'twould be true . |
sixty seven i.e. asia, as opposed to "these parts." |
how many such as chrysippus, how many such as socrates, how many such as epictetus, hath the age of the world long since swallowed up and devoured? |
had nothing for it but to be beforehand with him whom he feared. pompey had not been long under any such apprehensions, having till lately despised caesar, as thinking it no difficult matter to put down him whom he himself had advanced. |
twenty four. i advance these principles of the naturalists without knowing whether they are true or false; yet they are more like truth than those statements of yours; for they are the absurdities in which democritus, or before him leucippus, used to |
thus (e.g.) inasmuch as he in the superlative, the property would in who states 'a naturally civilized animal' as a this respect have been correctly stated. |
and the lydians for a time continued to endure it, but afterwards, as it did not cease, they sought for remedies; and one devised one thing and another of them devised another thing. |
"since we have treated of the kind of potency which is related to movement, let us discuss actuality-what, and what kind of thing, actuality is. |
the science of all the principles of sensibility a priori, i call transcendental sthetic. |
say that you wish to live for the sake of your children--you want to bring them up and educate them--will you take them into thessaly and deprive them of athenian citizenship? is this the benefit which you will confer upon them? |
and very likely i have been talking nonsense about them; for they may be unassailable, and those who say that there is clear evidence of them, and that they are matters of knowledge, may probably be right; in which case our friend theaetetus was not so |
yet i attach to thee this dishonour, seeing that thou art a coward and spiritless, namely that thou do not march with me against hellas, but remain here together with the women; and i, even without thy help, will accomplish all the things which i said: |
then secondly thou wilt give up to destruction salamis and megara and egina, even if we have success in all else; for with their fleet will come also the land-army, and thus thou wilt thyself lead them to the peloponnese and wilt risk the safety of all |
there are no external criteria by which we can determine the date of the meno. |
inevitably the meaning becomes obscure, and further, such people are thought to babble. |
one hundred thirty one from ois "sheep" and lukos "wolf" ( oin en lukoisi ). |
and money has come to be, by general agreement, a representative of demand: and the account of its greek name is this, that it is what it is not naturally but by custom or law (), and it rests with us to change its value, or make it wholly useless. |
yourself; carry a more steady hand: men betray you, men spill you, men steal you from yourself. dost thou not see that this world we live in keeps all its sight confined within, and its eyes open to contemplate itself? |
but let us come to commodus, who might easily have kept the empire, having succeeded to it by heredity, being the son of marcus, and it would have sufficed for him to follow in the steps of his father to have satisfied both the people and the soldiers. |
in return to which, either out of good-will to tigranes, or a want of solicitude for mithridates, he made answer, that as ambassador he counseled him to it, but as a friend dissuaded him from it. |
all. therefore i will not walk as jove would have me. for all his strength, let him keep to his own third share and be contented without threatening to lay hands upon me as though i were nobody. |
twenty. hold out baits to entice the enemy. feign disorder, and crush him. |
but that moral goodness which is our theme depends wholly upon the thought and attention given to it by the mind. |
and when laelius had intimated his approbation of this course, scipio continued: |
seventy i.e. "athene (protectress) of the city," who shared with erechtheus the temple on the acropolis called the "erechtheion"; see viii. fifty five. |
exile of two years, that he may learn to school his passions. |
husbandmen for their private advantage, but for the public service only; and in general they should make up their minds to live independently by themselves, servants of each other and of themselves. |
neither be, nor be conceived without the power of taking pleasure in this highest good. for it belongs to the essence of the human mind (two. xlvii.), to have an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of god. |
of demonstration); in that case what we should have to seek for would be this unique method. |
whether they be servile before gods and divine spurnings, or before men and stupid human opinions: at all kinds of slaves doth it spit, this blessed selfishness! |
and whereas some salaries are certain, and proceed from the publique treasure; and others uncertain, and casuall, proceeding from the execution of the office for which the salary is ordained; the later is in some cases hurtfull to the common-wealth; as in |
if every right is alienated in the social contract, what sense can there be in talking of "natural rights" afterwards? this, however, is to misrepresent rousseau's position. |
and, in fine, i could not have restrained my desires, nor remained satisfied had i not followed a path in which i thought myself certain of attaining all the knowledge to the acquisition of which i was competent, as well as the largest amount of what is |
life is a series of surprises. we do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow, when we are building up our being. |
"it remains, then, that it is opposed either as negation or as privation. it cannot be the negation or privation of one of the two; for why of the great rather than of the small? it is, then, the privative negation of both. |
from whence it follows, that the ideas they have in their minds, being referred to real essences, as to archetypes which are unknown, must be so far from being adequate that they cannot be supposed to be any representation of them at all. |
the inlets the lacedaemonians meant to close with a line of ships placed close together, with their prows turned towards the sea, and, meanwhile, fearing that the enemy might make use of the island to operate against them, carried over some heavy infantry |
but in a free people, as among the rhodians and athenians, there is no citizen who three hundred eight |
strictly necessary for their personal subsistence. |
these two men guided the emperor's youth with an unity of purpose seldom found where authority is shared, and though their accomplishments were wholly different, they had equal influence. |
then to wind up with a peroration which shall inflame or cool the hearers, as the case may require. |
to be plain, we suspect the mathematicians are as well as other men concerned in the errors arising from the doctrine of abstract general ideas, and the existence of objects without the mind. |
friends, and benefit the land which gave them birth? must we not suppose that these too will take their sorrows lightly, looking to these high ends? |
if the premisses are affirmative the conclusion will be problematic, not assertoric, whether the premisses are universal or not: but if one is affirmative, the other negative, when the affirmative is necessary the conclusion will be problematic, not |
man of worth. i say to thee, live no longer with this wife with whom thou now livest, but i give thee instead of her my daughter; with her live as thy wife, but the wife whom thou now hast, do not keep; for it does not seem good to me that thou shouldest |
at which i could not but wonder that it should be in the power of an ambassador to dispense with anything which he ought to signify to his master, especially of so great importance as this, coming from the mouth of such a person, and spoken in so great an |
consequently since the impossibility results whether the first assumption is suppressed or not, it would appear to be independent of that assumption. |
thought, and a conditioned state, when it is regarded under the attribute of extension, and deduced from the laws of motion and rest. this will appear yet more plainly in the sequel. |
from error, and is found in all animals, while it is possible to think falsely as well as truly, and thought is found only where there is discourse of reason as well as sensibility. |
suppose it is in honour of some phormio, or gnatho, or even ballio. eleven oh the abominable profligacy of the man! oh how intolerable is his impudence, his debauchery, and his lust! |
and you would admit that any particular state in which obedience to the laws is the paramount distinction of the citizens flourishes most in peace time, and in time of war is irresistible? |
neverthelesse, he promised by his prophets to restore this his government to them again, when the time he hath in his secret counsell appointed for it shall bee fully come, and when they shall turn unto him by repentance, and amendment of life; and not |
this accounts for the wish said to have been expressed once by a great glutton, "that his throat had been formed longer than a crane's neck," implying that his pleasure was derived from the touch. |
the character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration,-which is its rarer appearance,-to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms, like our |
showed plainly that he was wishing to shake himself loose of aratus. this the messenian affairs first gave occasion to suspect. |
athenian: then let us return once more to what we were saying at first. every man should understand that the human race either had no beginning at all, and will never have an end, but always will be and has been; or that it began an immense while ago. |
the sciences which they have hitherto learned in fragments will now be brought into relation with each other and with true being; for the power of combining them is the test of speculative and dialectical ability. |
when parents have too many children they may give to those who have none, or couples may abstain from having children, or, if there is a want of offspring, special care may be taken to obtain them; or if the number of citizens becomes excessive, we may |
as at first view the shepherd thinks he sees something inanimate and insensible, but afterward, judging by more trustworthy indications, he begins to figure to himself what it is; so philosophers, if they are surprised at first at the sight of the |
might have challenged the prize of valor. |
and he used to associate with himself, in the composition of his tragedies, two other poets, named alexander and homer; and whenever he was disturbed by his maid-servants or by the dogs, he paid no attention to them, studying above all things to live in |
to mark, in the progress of things, the moment at which right took the place of violence and nature became subject to law, and to explain by what sequence of miracles the strong came to submit to serve the weak, and the people to purchase imaginary repose |
indeed this armament that first sailed out was by far the most costly and splendid hellenic force that had ever been sent out by a single city up to that time. |
"he considers the route, computes the time of travelling, measuring his life by the length of the journey; and torments himself by thinking of the blow to come."--claudianus, in ruf., ii. one hundred thirty seven. |
state offered by such a man would be no offerings, being tainted with impiety; nor could aught else be 'well and justly' performed of which he is the doer." heaven help us! |
th' aeneans wish in vain their wanted chief, hopeless of flight, more hopeless of relief. thin on the tow'rs they stand; and ev'n those few a feeble, fainting, and dejected crew. |
and joy they say is the opposite of pleasure, since it is a rational elation of the mind; so caution is the opposite of fear, being a rational avoidance of anything, for the wise man will never be afraid, but he will act with caution; and will, they |
it was also, of course, very heavy and troublesome to carry, and a great deal of it in quantity and weight was but a little in value. |
the will of the state, though general in relation to its own members, is no longer so in relation to other states and their members, but becomes, for them, a particular and individual will, which has its rule of justice in the law of nature. |
the moon is cool, the wind is still. ah! ah! have ye already flown high enough? ye have danced: a leg, nevertheless, is not a wing. |
but is the pleasured derived from all these put together half as joyous as the consciousness of becoming better oneself, of acquiring better and better friends? that, for my part, is the belief one continue to cherish. |
and now, the macedonian drama being ended, let us prepare to see the roman. |
antigone. tell him thyself, unhappy one, thine errand; for large discourse may send a thrill of joy, or stir a chord of wrath or tenderness, and to the tongue-tied somehow give a tongue. |
present history. those things which, while yet unascertained, they embellished with their eloquence, shall here be related with a faithful adherence to known facts. |
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