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ev'n he, the king of men, the foremost name of all the greeks, and most renown'd by fame, the proud revenger of another's wife, yet by his own adult'ress lost his life; fell at his threshold; and the spoils of troy the foul polluters of his bed enjoy. |
especial weight and moment, was all my time bestowed and spent, and among others in this very thing, how my mind, by a natural and unavoidable sympathy partaking in some sort with the present indisposition of my body, might nevertheless keep herself free |
has other respect of mercy, than as it conduceth to the good of his own people. |
"minime, non plus quam navigantem three hundred forty four in alto eicere de navi velit, quia sua sit. quoad enim perventum est three hundred forty five eo, quo sumpta navis est, non domini est navis, sed navigantium." |
socrates: let us put the matter thus:--suppose that i persuaded you to buy a horse and go to the wars. neither of us knew what a horse was like, but i knew that you believed a horse to be of tame animals the one which has the longest ears. |
these purposes, and joining with them in all improvements, he won the hearts of all. that, however, which delighted them most, was the care that he took of their children. |
beaten with the present. and, indeed, even supposing they were yet too hard for the enemy in any case, they ought to remove and quit a situation which they understood to be always accounted a sickly one, and dangerous for an army, and was more |
if, on the other hand, it be maintained that it does not belong in some instance, you must show that it does belong in some instance, for in this way it will follow that it belongs to all instances. |
the negative is proved as follows. let a belong to all b, and to no one hundred: we conclude that b belongs to no one hundred. |
and they that make little, or no enquiry into the naturall causes of things, yet from the feare that proceeds from the ignorance it selfe, of what it is that hath the power to do them much good or harm, are enclined to suppose, and feign unto themselves, |
those that be admired by them that are more moderate and restrained, are comprehended under things animated: as flocks and herds. |
he was descended from melampus, who used to live in pylos, the land of sheep; he was rich and owned a great house, but he was driven into exile by the great and powerful king neleus. |
mamercus made surrender of himself to timoleon, with the proviso, that he should be tried at syracuse, and timoleon should take no part in his accusation. |
he was also of a fairly handsome person, according to the poet ion, tall and large, and let his thick and curly hair grow long. |
that which we call the earth is only one of many small hollows, wherein collect the mists and waters and the thick lower air; but the true earth is above, and is in a finer and subtler element. |
our kings in their wars, not only with their friends and servants, but in their own persons. |
hunting is of wide extent, and has a name under which many things are included, for there is a hunting of creatures in the water, and of creatures in the air, and there is a great deal of hunting of land animals of all kinds, and not of wild beasts only. |
without eating, and the whole night without sleeping:-- occupied with thinking. it was of no use. the better plan is to learn.' chap. thirty one. the master said, 'the object of the superior man is truth. food is not his object. |
ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles of these fair atheists; and now swim in joy, erelong to swim at large; and laugh, for which the world erelong a world of tears must weep. to whom thus adam, of short joy bereft. |
eighty three epi to iro : the mss. mostly have epi iro , and stein adopts the conjecture epi rio , "on a projecting point". the temple would be that of zeus ourios mentioned in ch. eighty seven. (in the medicean ms. |
i shall not adopt, said he, in so clear and simple a manner that system of discussion which goes back to first principles; as learned men often do in this sort of discussion, so as to go back to the first meeting of male and female, and then to the first |
made more guilty by the slaughter of a great-grandson of augustus, and the murder of a daughter-in-law of tiberius. for what have you not dared, what have you not profaned during these days? what name shall i give to this gathering? |
"tantum ex publicis malis sentimus, quantum ad privatas res pertinet;" |
you can be unconquerable if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own power to conquer. |
the statutes prescribed by numa for the vestals were these: that they should take a vow of virginity for the space of thirty years, the first ten of which they were to spend in learning their duties, the second ten in performing them, and the remaining |
so he halted at a lonely house in which a light was burning. |
the combination of ships) might support etc.," and ton tonon ton oplon may either mean as below "the stretched ropes," or "the tension of the ropes," which would be relieved by the support: the latter meaning seems to me preferable. |
the first prize he offered was for the chariot races-a woman skilled in all useful arts, and a three-legged cauldron that had ears for handles, and would hold twenty-two measures. this was for the man who came in first. |
the boeotians would so be least likely to be compelled to come into the attic treaty; and the lacedaemonians would prefer gaining the friendship and alliance of argos even at the price of the hostility of athens and the rupture of the treaty. |
consciousness consequently appears differently modified according to the difference of the given object; and the gradual specification of consciousness appears as a variation in the characteristics of its objects. |
both were of the same race and country, but jove was elder born and knew more, therefore neptune feared to defend the argives openly, but in the likeness of man, he kept on encouraging them throughout their host. |
pierus and antiopa, by the poets usually called pierides and pieriae. though sol (the sun) is so called, you say, because he is solus (single); yet how many suns do theologists mention? |
he returned answer, "that the people of rome were wont to revenge themselves of their enemies by open ways, and with their swords in their hands, and not clandestinely and by fraud": wherein he quitted the profitable for the honest. |
whose front a flaming sword, in signal of remove, waves fiercely round: we may no longer stay: go, waken eve; her also i with gentle dreams have calmed portending good, and all her spirits composed to meek submission: thou, at season fit, let her with |
"but if we are to suppose that in other respects the common definitions apply to the forms, e.g. |
even a young man, when he hears something unaccustomed, stands and looks this way and that, like a traveller at a place where three ways meet; and at our age a man ought to be very sure of his ground in so singular an argument. 'very true.' |
your concern, and after this it shall be thenceforth ours." |
i have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions and humours, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, |
even in the course of the trial he might have proposed exile as the penalty, but then he declared that he preferred death to exile. and whither will he direct his footsteps? in any well-ordered state the laws will consider him as an enemy. |
it was now evening, and feeling thirsty, he drank some water, and then took two daggers that belonged to him, and when he had carefully examined their edges, he laid one of them down, and put the other in his robe, under his arm, then called his servants, |
but i wish that you, if you do not approve entirely of the things which i have urged in this treatise, would believe either that i proposed to myself a work of too great difficulty for me to accomplish properly, or else that, while wishing to comply with |
an example of (one) would be as follows: if isosceles were the only triangle, it would be thought to have its angles equal to two right angles qua isosceles. an instance of (two) would be the law that proportionals alternate. |
hundred twenty and apart from the tribute they rode about and carried off by force the possessions of each tribe. |
twelve. he pretended also, that he grew old rapidly, in the same number of days as he had been years asleep; at least, so theopompus says. but mysonianus, in his coincidences, says, that the cretans call him one of the curetes. |
what have been called "formal duties(fifty nine)" seem to fall under this range-the province of a philosophical psychology which unveils the conditions of personality. |
and similarly if a man has an enemy, he will desire not to punish him, but that he shall go unpunished and become worse and worse, taking care only that he does no injury to himself. |
one hundred seventy two autokhthonas epeirotas . |
this emptiness finds its expression in the whole form of existence, in the infiniteness of time and space as opposed to the finiteness of the individual in both; in the flitting present as the only manner of real existence; in the dependence and |
literally, "make servants of them." tu yu says "prevent them from having any rest." |
silence being made, and lucretius just about to begin, by chance a centurion, passing by outside with his company of the day-guard, called out with a loud voice to the ensign-bearer to halt and fix his standard, for this was the best place to stay in. |
and as it was a custom in crete that the women also should be admitted to the sight of these games, ariadne, being present, was struck with admiration of the manly beauty of theseus, and the vigor and address which he showed in the combat, overcoming all |
splendor, and act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days. |
thinking or calculation but only imagination). |
the horse was caught and led through the neighbouring villages, and its owner ascertained. |
that of children to parents is rather respect: friendship is nourished by communication, which cannot by reason of the great disparity, be betwixt these, but would rather perhaps offend the duties of nature; for neither are all the secret thoughts of |
questioner by giving the elements of the thing. |
and if the nature of justice and injustice be known, then the meaning of acting unjustly and being unjust, or, again, of acting justly, will also be perfectly clear? |
out, as doubtless he does, it must then necessarily follow, that they must so fall out": to which our masters reply: "that the seeing anything come to pass, as we do, and as god himself also does (for all things being present with him, he rather sees, |
those who were arming that king, or some other person, who upon the like occasion was wont to be in the same disorder, tried to compose him by representing the danger less he was going to engage himself in: "you understand me ill," said he, "for could my |
appearance of napoleon. there are words of goethe in which he condemns with impatient severity, as from a foreign land, that which germans take a pride in, he once defined the famous german turn of mind as "indulgence towards its own and others' |
nine. he is said to have been a man of the most dignified appearance, and his disciples adopted an opinion respecting him, that he was apollo who had come from the hyperboreans; and it is said, that once when he was stripped naked, he was seen to have a |
i. i have determined to write a book upon clemency, nero caesar, in order that i may as it were serve as a mirror to you, and let you see yourself arriving at the greatest of all pleasures. |
since every movement is a change, and the kinds of change are the three named above, and of these those in the way of generation and destruction are not movements, and these are the changes from a thing to its contradictory, it follows that only the |
yet all these are but six in number, while each is spoken of in two ways; for (a) they are causes either as the individual, or as the genus, or as the accidental, or as the genus that includes the accidental, and these either as combined, or as taken |
(five) our search for the reason ceases, and we think that we know, when the coming to be or existence of the fact before us is not due to the coming to be or existence of some other fact, for the last step of a search thus conducted is eo ipso the end |
callicles: there is nothing like asking him, socrates; and indeed to answer questions is a part of his exhibition, for he was saying only just now, that any one in my house might put any question to him, and that he would answer. |
distinguished both from pure space, which is capable neither of resistance nor motion; and from the ordinary idea of hardness. |
that its three angles are equal to two right ones, that to its greatest angle the greatest side is subtended, and such like, which i now clearly know whether i will or not , tho before i never thought on them, when i imagine a triangle, and consequently |
reason and the desires, the intellect and the senses are brought into harmony and obedience so as to form a single human being. |
asked and uncertain answers given. a vast multitude streamed to the spot with torches, and as soon as all knew that she was safe, they at once prepared to wish her joy, till the sight of an armed and threatening force scared them away. |
for this, solon grew famed and powerful; but his advice in favor of defending the oracle at delphi, to give aid, and not to suffer the cirrhaeans to profane it, but to maintain the honor of the god, got him most repute among the greeks: for upon his |
instructed, or to learn any thing that i wanted, but that he should see and be a witness of my happiness; the loss of which was, it seems, to be a greater evil than the enjoyment was a good; for when i had them they were goods only in opinion, but now the |
"thou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, to claim a station in the firmament because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue in the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, with roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand, |
twenty nine. see legge's classics, vol. five, prolegomena p. twenty seven. legge thinks that the tso chuan must have been written in the th century, but not before four hundred twenty four b.one hundred. |
three. and schines was calumniated on more than one occasion; and especially by menedemus of eretria, who states that he appropriated many dialogues of socrates as his own, having procured them from xanthippe. |
and when the long twilight cometh and the mortal weariness, even then wilt thou not disappear from our firmament, thou advocate of life! |
deliverance." roused by these and like words into a common enthusiasm, and some too were filled with an ardour peculiarly their own by the perils of brothers and kinsfolk, they hurried on by day and night their uninterrupted march. |
this is a tradition of the olden time, to which priests and poets bear witness. the souls of men returning to earth bring back a latent memory of ideas, which were known to them in a former state. |
"me laodamas offered to thee, fair-aiming apollo, he, of his wealth, fifty one being king, as a gift most fair in thine honor:" |
they thought that they were happy enough, and that no one should be allowed to oppose them in any way, and they compelled every one to praise all that they said or did. this was how they brought them up. |
but none of the arts theorize about individual cases. |
as, also, thucydides, in his history of the peloponnesian war, tells us, that a good number of them, after being singled out for their bravery by the spartans, garlanded, as enfranchised persons, and led about to all the temples in token of honors, |
the universal affirmative is proved by means of the first figure only and by this in only one mood; the universal negative is proved both through the first figure and through the second, through the first in one mood, through the second in two. |
it comes and goes; the mind, like the sky, is apt to be overclouded. other generations of men may have sometimes lived under an 'eclipse of faith,' to us the total disappearance of it might be compared to the 'sun falling from heaven.' |
after this, public troubles were soon to leave him unmolested; the people, so to say, discharged their passion in their stroke, and lost their stings in the wound. |
physical causality, or the condition under which it takes place, belongs to the physical concepts, the schema of which is sketched by transcendental imagination. |
to him in which he can provide against a coming struggle. |
attaginos, who were leaders equal to the first; and if the thebans did not give them up, they determined not to retire from the city until they had taken it. |
but there lurks at the foundation of this subject an illusion which it is very difficult to avoid. |
for this reason, if a man put in the same place his interest, sanctity, goodness, and country, and parents, and friends, all these are secured: but if he puts in one place his interest, in another his friends, and his country and his kinsmen and justice |
necessaries to retreat into provinces that did not belong to them. |
having thus projected things, away he goes to delphi to consult apollo there; which having done, and offered his sacrifice, he returned with that renowned oracle, in which he is called beloved of god, and rather god than man; that his prayers were heard, |
there may be a greater freedom from prejudice and party; we may better understand the whereabouts of truth, and therefore there may be more success and fewer failures in the search for it. |
all life is slavery: let each man therefore reconcile himself to his lot, complain of it as little as possible, and lay hold of whatever good lies within his reach. no condition can be so wretched that an impartial mind can find no compensations in it. |
but he has discovered a use of language in which they are united; which gives a fitting expression to the highest truths; and in which the trifles of courtesy and the familiarities of daily life are not overlooked. |
i believe that in the temple of pallas, as we see in all other religions, there were apparent mysteries to be exposed to the people; and others, more secret and high, that were only to be shown to such as were professed; 'tis likely that in these the true |
virtue, that she appeared another lucretia; and yet i have since been very well assured that both before and after she was not so difficult a piece. |
but of action there are two kinds. one having reference to pursuing or avoiding anything; as for instance, by what means you can acquire glory, or how envy may be avoided. |
for mucia during his absence had dishonored his bed. |
that which giveth wings to asses, that which milketh the lionesses:- praised be that good, unruly spirit, which cometh like a hurricane unto all the present and unto all the populace,- |
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