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a man may well understand natural signs without knowing their analogy, or being able to say by what rule a thing is so or so. |
fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat, or idea of pain, be produced in the mind; wherein consists actual perception. |
polus: i will ask; and do you answer me, socrates, the same question which gorgias, as you suppose, is unable to answer: what is rhetoric? |
themselves. of late many have been very sensible of the absurd opinions and insignificant disputes which grow out of the abuse of words. |
these truths, which have been already set forth as i state them in the previous discussion, would seem now to have been fixed and riveted by us, if i may use an expression which is certainly bold, in words which are like bonds of iron and adamant; and |
(b) by 'an organ of sense' is meant that in which ultimately such a power is seated. |
and from this you may see that my difference is not with the man, but with the cause which he sometimes advocates. |
these are particular effects: but that which all the world has seen, and all the world knows, that in all the armies of the levant one of the greatest force consisted in elephants, with whom they did, without comparison, much greater execution than we now |
of cyrus; and lastly, a description of the arrival of the hellenes in camp after the battle, and as to how they betook themselves to rest, none suspecting but what they were altogether victorious and that cyrus lived.) |
many editors read katertismenos ("well prepared"), following the aldine tradition. |
i love the forest. it is bad to live in cities: there, there are too many of the lustful. |
place then before your eyes, o conscript fathers, that spectacle, miserable indeed, and tearful, but still indispensable to rouse your minds properly: the nocturnal attack upon the most beautiful city in asia; the irruption of armed men into trebonius's |
best interests, he was able generally to lead the people along, with their own wills and consents, by persuading and showing them what was to be done; and sometimes, too, urging and pressing them forward extremely against their will, he made them, whether |
workmen, in some states, were not formerly admitted into any share in the government; till at length democracies were established: it is not therefore proper for any man of honour, or any citizen, or any one who engages in public affairs, to learn these |
if this same man comes to die, his empire, after him, remains scattered and without unity, as an oak falls and dissolves into a heap of ashes when the fire has consumed it. |
and which of us poets hath not adulterated his wine? many a poisonous hotchpotch hath evolved in our cellars: many an indescribable thing hath there been done. |
the way by which a man either simply renounceth, or transferreth his right, is a declaration, or signification, by some voluntary and sufficient signe, or signes, that he doth so renounce, or transferre; or hath so renounced, or transferred the same, to |
nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. while i enjoy the friendship of the seasons i trust that nothing can make life a burden to me. |
thus it comes about that grief is inconsistent with courage: it is very probable, therefore, that whoever is subject to grief is also liable to fear, and to a broken kind of spirits and sinking. |
amongst those who were detained in prison for their trials was andocides the orator, whose descent the historian hellanicus deduces from ulysses. he was always supposed to hate popular government, and to support oligarchy. |
advocate?', with the answer 'cleon!' on the other hand, unrhythmical language is too unlimited; we do not want the limitations of metre, but some limitation we must have, or the effect will be vague and unsatisfactory. |
-the bad game of our howling and crying for help! abide with us, o zarathustra! here there is much concealed misery that wisheth to speak, much evening, much cloud, much damp air! |
it is a quite different consideration, to examine whether the mind has the idea of such a boundless space actually existing; since our ideas are not always proofs of the existence of things: but yet, since this comes here in our way, i suppose i may say, |
and for a man voluntarily to deprive himself of this gift, as he deliberately does who will not have a wife or children, is impiety. |
how came you to neglect what sort of breeze blows round your greece, and what's the origin and end of everything? |
his physician consoled him, by informing him that he had taken a sleeping draught, not a poison; upon which, much rejoiced, and rising from his bed, he went presently to caesar, and gave him the pledge of his hand, yet afterwards again went over to |
the forms which they assume are numerous, and if taken literally, inconsistent with one another. at one time we are in the clouds of mythology, at another among the abstractions of mathematics or metaphysics; we pass imperceptibly from one to the other. |
for even prodigies that were obvious and plain would not deter them; not the defacing of the hermue, all maimed in one night except one, called the hermes of andocides, erected by the tribe of aegeus, placed directly before the house then occupied by |
i mean by 'similar', if the conclusion is a simple assertion, the premiss must be simple; if the conclusion is necessary, the premiss must be necessary. |
the theory of a contract between government and people had, as we have seen, been used mainly as a support for popular liberties, a means of assertion against the government. |
and disengaged from all embarrass of words and prepossession in favour of received mistakes."--edit one thousand seven hundred ten |
not long after, fabius laid down the dictatorship, and consuls were again created. |
sixteen the thought, "these representations given in intuition belong all of them to me," is accordingly just the same as, "i unite them in one self-consciousness, or can at least so unite them"; and although this thought is not itself the consciousness |
now, if i go farther, and for weighty reasons rank as mere appearances the remaining qualities of bodies also, which are called primary, such as extension, place, and in general space, with all that which belongs to it (impenetrability or materiality, |
they were. after this, marching to the assistance of the eleans, whom the achaeans were attacking, falling upon the enemy in their retreat near the lycaeum, he put their whole army to flight, taking a great number of captives, and leaving many dead upon |
without mealing the breast. i see some who transform and transubstantiate themselves into as many new shapes and new beings as they undertake new employments; and who strut and fume even to the heart and liver, and carry their state along with them even |
and therefore these emperors, who being new men had need of extraordinary favours, adhered to the soldiers more willingly than to the people; whether this, however, was of use to them or not, depended on whether the prince knew how to maintain his |
burned, till the smell of the broiling flesh was perceived by those present. |
he has certainly more claim to be described a "doomed spy", for the king of ch'i, being subsequently attacked without warning by han hsin, and infuriated by what he considered the treachery of li i-chi, ordered the unfortunate envoy to be boiled alive. |
it will be well, however, for you to be wakeful and look to your interests; as you have been making your enemy stronger than yourself." |
with fear and wonder seiz'd, the crowd beholds the gloves of death, with sev'n distinguish'd folds of tough bull hides; the space within is spread with iron, or with loads of heavy lead: dares himself was daunted at the sight, renounc'd his challenge, and |
thirteen. these are the five besetting sins of a general, ruinous to the conduct of war. |
can be imagined, i will instance amongst others, our flat caps, that long tail of velvet that hangs down from our women's heads, with its party-coloured trappings; and that vain and futile model of a member we cannot in modesty so much as name, which, |
in the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave all thy creed, all the creeds, all the literatures of the nations, and marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted. |
in the other indies, to ride upon an elephant was the first and royal place of honour; the second to ride in a coach with four horses; the third to ride upon a camel; and the last and least honour to be carried or drawn by one horse only. |
but regarding a numerically single number not even this form of error is possible; for we cannot in this case suppose that one instance has an attribute and another has not, but whether our judgement be true or false, it is implied that the fact is |
but pelopidas with the three hundred came rapidly up, before cleombrotus could extend his line, and close up his divisions, and so fell upon the spartans while in disorder; though the lacedaemonians, the expertest and most practiced soldiers of all |
the reward which mamurius received for his art was to be mentioned and commemorated in the verses which the salii sang, as they danced in their arms through the city; though some will have it that they do not say veturium mamurium, but veterem memoriam, |
if no more be meant by the objection than that many utilitarians look on the morality of actions, as measured by the utilitarian standard, with too exclusive a regard, and do not lay sufficient stress upon the other beauties of character which go towards |
always strong enough, as it is when it is reflected from water, bronze, and other smooth bodies, to cast a shadow, which is the distinguishing mark by which we recognize light. |
by such artifices having drawn on the woman to the time of her lying-in, as soon as he heard that she was in labor, he sent persons to be by and observe all that passed, with orders that if it were a girl they should deliver it to the women, but if a boy, |
battle impels generous soldiers to perform things of so infinite danger, as afterwards, recollecting them, they themselves are the first to wonder at; as it also fares with the poets, who are often rapt with admiration of their own writings, and know not |
let us, then, take the argument as our guide, which has revealed to us that the best way of life is to practise justice and every virtue in life and death. |
the rich, who have the service of the poor, may be debtors not onely for their own persons, but for many more. |
"she who only refuses, because 'tis forbidden, consents." --ovid, amor., ii. four, four. |
objective man is in truth a mirror accustomed to prostration before everything that wants to be known, with such desires only as knowing or "reflecting" implies--he waits until something comes, and then expands himself sensitively, so that even the light |
four. heraclides ponticus says, that he was accustomed to speak of himself in this manner; that he had formerly been thalides, and had been accounted the son of mercury; and that mercury had desired him to select any gift he pleased except immortality. |
and chang yu says: "humanity and justice are the principles on which to govern a state, but not an army; opportunism and flexibility, on the other hand, are military rather than civil virtues to assimilate the governing of an army"-to that of a state, |
imperative mission (in the end, however, the greatness of their mission), in being the bad conscience of their age. |
it is thus that that which was hot becomes cold, for it has entered into a different state. |
in the course of the winter i threw out half a bushel of ears of sweet-corn, which had not got ripe, on to the snow crust by my door, and was amused by watching the motions of the various animals which were baited by it. |
should feel i had got my pay in full, and no longer grudge the pains we have undergone." the speaker was followed by another and then another in the same strain; and after that xenophon made the following speech:-- |
twice as large again. i know that they will not have horses with them, or get any here, except a few perhaps from the egestaeans; or be able to bring a force of heavy infantry equal in number to our own, in ships which will already have enough to do to |
so he errs if he has not said beforehand that he has rendered a property to a thing either because that thing possesses a state, or because it is a state possessed by something; because then it will not be a property. |
themselves desire to have it. with these, if they desire to be the leaders, we do not contend; but none others beside ourselves shall we permit to be in command of the ships: for then to no purpose should we be possessors of a sea-force larger than any |
if an army is encamped in wild marsh lands thickly overgrown with weeds and brambles, and visited by frequent gales, it may be exterminated by fire." |
now, the man free from mistakes has no disturbance; he is master of himself, enjoying a deep and tranquil repose of mind; for if an injury reaches him it moves and rouses him. |
is this what you see in the world, that for the purpose of learning what it is well to know, and of recollecting the lessons taught, or with a view to health and strength of body, or for the sake of acquiring and preserving all that gives life its charm, |
among them was also tullus himself, not for any wrong done him personally by marcius, but through the weakness incident to human nature. |
receiving no reinforcements from behind, seeing everything in front of us already subjugated, we had the spirit, after abandoning our city, after sacrificing our property (instead of deserting the remainder of the league or depriving them of our services |
for as prometheus, (which interpreted, is, the prudent man,) was bound to the hill caucasus, a place of large prospect, where, an eagle feeding on his liver, devoured in the day, as much as was repayred in the night: so that man, which looks too far |
'tis a way that has been practised by all the legislators: and there is no government that has not some mixture either of ceremonial vanity or of false opinion, that serves for a curb to keep the people in their duty. |
all unfriendly criticism. i wonder now whether you find it easy to get through your present occupations entirely without reproach. no? let me tell you what you should do. |
we should believe that god has dealt more bountifully with the sons of men than to give them a strong desire for that knowledge which he had placed quite out of their reach. |
thus fortune, deferring her displeasure and jealousy of such great success to some other time, let aemilius at present enjoy this victory, without any detraction or diminution. |
condition merely from knowing the art of medicine or training. |
when it is left him, he will enjoy it, he must certainly take it upon the conditions annexed to the possession of land in that country where it lies, whether it be france or england. |
he should not soon overcome me, though he boasts that he is made of bronze." |
choosing one from among themselves, and they do not know how to live in freedom, so that they are slower to take arms, and a prince can win them over with greater facility and establish himself securely. |
they flew full speed over the plain away from the ships, the dust rose from under them as it were a cloud or whirlwind, and their manes were all flying in the wind. |
"this was what she said, and we assented; whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight. |
and he was a man of such excessive rigour of principle, that when eurylochus, of cassandrea, had been invited by antigonus, to come to him in company with cleippides, a youth of cyzicus, he refused to go, for he was afraid lest menedemus should hear of |
is not this destroying all companionship in life, destroying the means by which absent friends converse together? how many jests are frequently put in letters, which, if they were produced in public, would appear stupid! |
socrates: and is not this universally true? if a man does something for the sake of something else, he wills not that which he does, but that for the sake of which he does it. |
theodorus: certainly we are. about these speculations of heracleitus, which, as you say, are as old as homer, or even older still, the ephesians themselves, who profess to know them, are downright mad, and you cannot talk with them on the subject. |
it is with the inhabitants of this angle, as 'tis said of those of the val d'angrougne; they lived a peculiar sort of life, their fashions, clothes, and manners distinct from other people; ruled and governed by certain particular laws and usages, received |
governments also sometimes alter without seditions by a combination of the meaner people; as at hersea: for which purpose they changed the mode of election from votes to lots, and thus got themselves chosen: and by negligence, as when the citizens admit |
behaviour he refuses to have any lot or part in common rationality, and shuts himself up in his own isolated subjectivity-his private and particular self. |
thirdly, for the worship which naturally men exhibite to powers invisible, it can be no other, but such expressions of their reverence, as they would use towards men; gifts, petitions, thanks, submission of body, considerate addresses, sober behaviour, |
'rest' always follows a 'calm' and 'divisibility' follows 'number', but not conversely (for the divisible is not always a number, nor rest a calm)-you may yourself assume in your treatment of them that the one which always follows is the genus, whenever |
the scythians and thracians are passionate, our own race intellectual, and the egyptians and phoenicians covetous, because the individual members of each have such and such a character; the difficulty is to determine whether the several principles are one |
seventy one quocirca astutiae tollendae sunt eaque malitia, quae volt illa quidem videri se esse prudentiam, sed abest ab ea distatque plurimum. |
the gods too high had rais'd the roman state, were but their gifts as permanent as great. what groans of men shall fill the martian field! how fierce a blaze his flaming pile shall yield! |
prince has over his: and every prince, that has parents, owes them as much filial duty and obedience, as the meanest of his subjects do to their's; and can therefore contain not any part or degree of that kind of dominion, which a prince or magistrate has |
he then, not having heard the oracle, made choice and said that if there should be given him the lands belonging to certain citizens, naming those whom he knew to possess the two best lots of land in apollonia, and a dwelling-house also with these, which |
be of good cheer; what doth it matter? how much is still possible! learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! |
compared with another may have either an equal or an unequal share), and the other is that which is corrective in the various transactions between man and man. |
should say rather, to be sole ruler. but when one begins to aspire to pre-eminence, it is difficult to preserve that spirit of fairness which is absolutely essential to justice. |
whose sister, junia calvina, a handsome and lively girl, had shortly before become his daughter-in-law. here was a starting point for an accuser. |
what can i do better in the interval between this and the setting of the sun? |
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