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and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. in a word, a man were better relate himself to a statua, or picture, than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. |
adversaries, arrogantly thinking that they should know in time, and that it was unnecessary to secure by action what policy afforded, often fell victims to their want of precaution. |
that the moon is eclipsed-but the fact that a thing is itself is the single reason and the single cause to be given in answer to all such questions as why the man is man, or the musician musical', unless one were to answer 'because each thing is |
different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive. |
taking up this assertion, xenophon said: "well, then, granting that clearchus broke the truce contrary to our oaths, he has his deserts, for perjurers deserve to perish; but where are proxenus and menon, our generals and your good friends and benefactors, |
"and i said, 'in truth jove has hated the house of atreus from first to last in the matter of their women's counsels. see how many of us fell for helen's sake, and now it seems that clytemnestra hatched mischief against you too during your absence.' |
so great riches, that the most experienced in that trade could hardly in their whole lives, with all their industry, have raked so much together.-- diogenes laertius, life of thales, i. twenty six; cicero, de divin., i. forty nine. |
to add to this unexpected good fortune, news arrived that ptolemy had dismissed his mother and children, bestowing upon them presents and honors; and also that his daughter stratonice, whom he had married to seleucus, was remarried to antiochus, the son |
even our very senses are brought into dispute, by a certain species of philosophers; and the maxims of common life are subjected to the same doubt as the most profound principles or conclusions of metaphysics and theology. |
the gods permitted not, that you, with me, should reach the promis'd shores of italy, or tiber's flood, what flood soe'er it be." |
so both classes, as wishing to make gain from improper sources, are given to base gain, and all such receivings are stingy. |
three. crito wrote seventeen dialogues, which were all published in one volume; and one subjoin their titles:-that men are not made good by teaching; on superfluity; what is suitable, or the statesman; on the honourable; on doing ill; on good government; |
to both these friends i give my most cordial thanks for the care and skill exercised by them. mr. |
but perhaps others may be better hands at concealment; i have always openly avowed that i have learnt the art. |
way affected but rather his intellect. now men are not called perfectly self-mastering or wholly destitute of self-control in respect of pleasures of this class: nor in fact in respect of any which are not bodily; those for example who love to tell long |
also, as i think, it was fear that persuaded them to it, when they were informed that there was another pass besides this to the thessalian land by upper macedonia through the perraibians and by the city of gonnos, the way by which the army of xerxes did |
the same passion which may wallow in the mire is capable of rising to the loftiest heights--of penetrating the inmost secret of philosophy. the highest love is the love not of a person, but of the highest and purest abstraction. |
immolation acquit, towards god, the whole army of the greeks from all the crimes they had committed; |
and since everything that is may be referred to something single and common, each of the contrarieties also may be referred to the first differences and contrarieties of being, whether the first differences of being are plurality and unity, or likeness |
thus, with the memory of former kindnesses made sweeter, you will increase the grace which flows from kindnesses tenfold; you will in consequence be knit in closer bonds of love and domesticity. |
friendship excels relationship in this, that whereas you may eliminate affection from relationship, you cannot do so from friendship. without it relationship still exists in name, friendship does not. |
good manners! everything is false and foul with us. no one knoweth any longer how to reverence: it is that precisely that we run away from. they are fulsome obtrusive dogs; they gild palm-leaves. |
as for sylla, it were hard to reckon up how many set battles he won, or how many thousands he slew; he took rome itself twice, as also the athenian piraeus, not by famine, as lysander did, but by a series of great battles, driving archelaus into the sea. |
in dancing, rhythm alone is used without 'harmony'; for even dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement. |
the ancient xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an eminence near the sea, which has ever since retained the name, and plutarch says, that he had a scruple about selling for a small profit to the slaughterer an ox that had been long in his service. |
hills, suited for ranks of infantry, partly, of a spreading plain where troops of cavalry could manoeuvre. |
that is to say, we have shown that we are in possession of pure a priori intuitions, namely, space and time, in which we find, when in a judgement a priori we pass out beyond the given conception, something which is not discoverable in that conception, |
fluid, and ambiguous conveniences, and easily resign to the body the care and use of sensual and temporal pasture; 'tis a privileged study. between ourselves, i have ever observed supercelestial opinions and subterranean manners to be of singular accord. |
equality in all these points is desirable for social unity: but it is not indispensable for political strength. |
fifty five. good, looked at in a general way, is some advantage, with the more particular distinction, being partly what is actually useful, partly what is not contrary to utility. |
the fourth legion to caesar, to be a protection to the consuls, and senate, and people of rome, and the republic. and for these acts i give my vote: |
oedipus. dear friend-those accents tell me who thou art- yon man but now hath done me a foul wrong. |
they then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. |
in earnest, one read this author with more reverence and respect than is usually allowed to human writings; one while considering him in his person, by his actions and miraculous greatness, and another in the purity and inimitable polish of his language, |
then you will come to a level plain, in which the nile flows round an island named tachompso. |
for whereas the choruses which the cities sent to sing hymns to the god were wont to arrive in no order, as it might happen, and, being there met by a crowd of people crying out to them to sing, in their hurry to begin, used to disembark confusedly, |
which fail it endangers your fortune. a man himself strikes much surer than the air can direct his blow: |
then now i think you will have no difficulty in understanding my meaning when i asked the question whether the end of anything would be that which could not be accomplished, or not so well accomplished, by any other thing? |
also, that they are not pitiful, and that they never make allowance for any one; for that they do not relax the punishments appointed by law, since yielding, and pity, and mercifulness itself, never exist in any of their souls, so as to induce an |
but it is but defining the soul to be "a substance that always thinks," and the business is done. |
what we have said concerning a city may nearly be applied to a country; for as to what soil it should be, every one evidently will commend it if it is such as is sufficient in itself to furnish what will make the inhabitants happy; for which purpose it |
philosophical thinking; one has here to learn anew, as one learned anew about heredity and "innateness." |
thetis had offered it as a prize, but the trojan prisoners and minerva were the judges. |
one in ithaca. he is much the best man and the most persistent wooer, of all those who are paying court to my mother and trying to take ulysses' place. |
citizens and at that time commander of a trireme. now the naxians are ionians coming originally from athens. the styrians furnished the same ships as at artemision, and the men of kythnos one ship and one fifty-oared galley, these both being dryopians. |
everything else alike, then men who have failed to secure other people's safety are not to be employed to secure our own.' another instance is the argument of alcidamas: 'every one honours the wise'. |
fortune rules in all things gentleman would play the fool to make a show of defence happen to do anything commendable, i attribute it to fortune having too good an opinion of our own worth he should discern in himself, as well as in others he who is only |
eighty one. after that the thebans, having made an attempt with the alliance of the sons of aiacos and having been roughly handled by the athenians, sent again and gave them back the sons of aiacos and asked them for men. |
sight of the chief point of interest-the special mode in which the unity is qualified. hence all they can say about philosophy is that dry identity is its principle and result, and that it is the system of identity. |
laelius . thanks, scaevola! you are quite right; you spoke the exact truth. |
in regard to subjects which must have one and one only of two predicates, as (e.g.) a man must have either a disease or health, supposing we are well supplied as regards the one for arguing its presence or absence, we shall be well equipped as regards the |
he took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a |
probably the saying of theodoras, the tragic actor, was not a bad one: that he would permit no one, not even the meanest actor, to go upon the stage before him, that he might first engage the ear of the audience. |
'that is reasonable enough.' and now, suppose that the gods had given mankind a drug, of which the effect was to exaggerate every sort of evil and danger, so that the bravest man entirely lost his presence of mind and became a coward for a time:--would |
they never employed their parts, faculties, and powers industriously that way, but contented themselves with the opinions, fashions, and things of their country, as they found them, without looking any further. |
to him homer was a great writer, though what his writing was about he did not know. a more simple and natural man it would be hard to find. vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him. |
and with reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, i did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what i saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the |
and therefore this is my prayer to our allies, our citizens, and to heaven itself; to the last, that, to my life's close, it grant me a tranquil mind, which can discern alike human and divine claims; to the first, that, when i die, they honour my career |
i shall farther add one story we read of him to this purpose, wherein his nature will much more manifestly be laid open to us. |
she took her stand by the huge black hull of ulysses' ship which was middlemost of all, so that her voice might carry farthest on either side, on the one hand towards the tents of ajax son of telamon, and on the other towards those of achilles-for these |
five. dareios being dead the kingdom passed to his son xerxes. now xerxes at the first was by no means anxious to make a march against hellas, but against egypt he continued to gather a force. |
but an thought must directly, or indirectly, by means of certain signs, relate ultimately to intuitions; consequently, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. |
theseus. what the boon, my children, say. |
suddenly bursting into the senate killed peithias and sixty others, senators and private persons; some few only of the party of peithias taking refuge in the athenian galley, which had not yet departed. |
"for not treasures, nor the consular lictor, can remove the miserable tumults of the mind, nor cares that fly about panelled ceilings."--horace, od., ii. sixteen, nine. |
that is to say, hobbes in fact accepts the theory of popular supremacy in name only to destroy it in fact; rousseau asserts the theory in its only logical form, and is under no temptation to evade it by means of false historical assumptions. |
the sentence therefore by which a man was put out of the church, was pronounced by the apostle, or pastor; but the judgment concerning the merit of the cause, was in the church; that is to say, (as the times were before the conversion of kings, and men |
but the chief encourager of strict manners was vespasian, himself old-fashioned both in his dress and diet. henceforth a respectful feeling towards the prince and a love of emulation proved more efficacious than legal penalties or terrors. |
the arguments are particularly appropriate in cases where the process of putting the parts together is obvious, as in a house and other things of that sort: for there, clearly, you may have the parts and yet not have the whole, so that parts and whole |
it is known that haterius having entered the palace to ask pardon, and thrown himself at the knees of tiberius as he was walking, was almost killed by the soldiers, because tiberius fell forward, accidentally or from being entangled by the suppliant's |
mechanic victories! never did ambition, never did public animosities, engage men against one another in such miserable hostilities, in such miserable calamities. |
without any loss of character; but there are also times when elders look grave and guard their young relations, and personal remarks are made. the truth is that some of these loves are disgraceful and others honourable. |
and that most excellent service done by decimus brutus to the republic, is and always will be grateful to the senate and people of rome. |
after this they met, and syennesis gave cyrus large sums in aid of his army; while cyrus presented him with the customary royal gifts--to wit, a horse with a gold bit, a necklace of gold, a gold bracelet, and a gold scimitar, a persian dress, and lastly, |
enemies, striking at all he met. he received no wound, whether it were that a special divine care rewarded his valor with an extraordinary protection, or whether his shape being so large and beautiful, and his dress so unusual, they thought him more than |
at daybreak the heralds went round crying that all in elis to whom there was a debt owing should come; and the leading pylians assembled to divide the spoils. |
since it is now evident of what parts a city is composed, it will be necessary to treat first of family government, for every city is made up of families, and every family b has again its separate parts of which it is composed. |
the building chosen for the transaction was, as was natural, dark and unfrequented, and a slave named vindicius had, as it chanced, concealed himself there, not out of design or any intelligence of the affair, but, accidentally being within, seeing with |
"of my slaves, i hereby emancipate mus, and nicias, and lycon: i also give phdrium her freedom." |
all the circumstances were subsequently so well known, that writers of the time have declared that the poison was infused into some mushrooms, a favourite delicacy, and its effect not at the instant perceived, from the emperor's lethargic, or intoxicated |
'tis for us to dote and trifle away the time, and for young men to stand upon their reputation and nice punctilios; they are going towards the world and the world's opinion; we are retiring from it: |
and glory in being the protectors of the father of their country: whereas your harsh and murderous tyrant must needs be disliked even by his own janissaries. |
the pressure increasing, heraclides sent his brother, and after him his uncle, theodotes, to beg him to help them: for that now they were not able to resist any longer; he himself was wounded, and the greatest part of the city either in ruins or in |
and you know, i said, that the old servants also, who are supposed to be attached to the family, from time to time talk privately in the same strain to the son; and if they see any one who owes money to his father, or is wronging him in any way, and he |
eighteen. while he was thus exhorting them, the horsemen having encompassed them round were riding towards them as if to destroy them; and they were already aiming their missiles as if about to discharge them, nay some perhaps did discharge them: and |
courage, in proportion as the punishments of slavery with which you see the conquered are threatened are more terrible. antonius has invaded gaul; dolabella, asia; each a province with which he had no business whatever. |
the genius of the hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination. |
them; and where they were not received, to shake off the dust of their feet against them; but not to call for fire from heaven to destroy them, nor to compell them to obedience by the sword. in all which there is nothing of power, but of perswasion. |
accordingly, i have charged my servants to convey this book of mine to you, after they have buried me. |
quantity of wine they drink. no estate can stand such recklessness, for we have now no ulysses to protect us. if he were to come again, he and his son would soon have their revenge." |
from whence arose those five forms, eighty three of which the rest were composed, so aptly contributing to frame the mind and produce the senses? |
the utmost fruit of my health is pleasure; let us take hold of the present and known. |
twelve this i believe to be the meaning of the text, but koch reasonably conjectures that the true reading is "editur subscriptio," "an indictment was made out against him." see "on benefits," iii. twenty six. |
one another. for being distracted in opinions concerning the best use and application of their strength, they do not help, but hinder one another; and reduce their strength by mutuall opposition to nothing: whereby they are easily, not onely subdued by a |
"pray employ," answered he, "some miserable plundered soldier in that affair": |
they are, therefore, impatient till they escape from a state, which to them is so uneasy: and they think, that they could never remove themselves far enough from it, by the violence of their affirmations and obstinacy of their belief. |
for if there be any one to which it is not incidental, in that there can be no dispute at all; on which account it has no right even to be considered a cause at all. |
but from the moment one man began to stand in need of the help of another; from the moment it appeared advantageous to any one man to have enough provisions for two, equality disappeared, property was introduced, work became indispensable, and vast |
masters of their several cities, had been discontented with the present order of things. |
for it is better to die of hunger and so to be released from grief and fear than to live in abundance with perturbation; and it is better for your slave to be bad than for you to be unhappy. begin then from little things. is the oil spilled? |
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