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and so it is but comparing the particular age or duration of this or that man, to the idea of that duration which we have in our minds, as ordinarily belonging to that sort of animals: which is plain in the application of these names to other things; for |
"i will keep thee in fetters and chains, in custody of a savage keeper.--a god will when i ask him, set me free. this god i think is death. death is the term of all things." --hor., ep., i. sixteen, seventy six. |
proof.--whatsoever is in god's power, must (by the last prop.) be comprehended in his essence in such a manner, that it necessarily follows therefrom, and therefore necessarily exists. q.e.five hundred. |
essential to strength, because madness often makes men stronger. why, does not fear often by the rule of contraries make men bolder, and does not the terror of death rouse up even arrant cowards to join battle? |
for what purpose they were being conducted to sardis, first instructed the boys to lay hold of the temple of artemis, and then they refused to permit the corinthians to drag the suppliants away from the temple: and as the corinthians cut the boys off from |
"on these accounts the senate thinks and declares that the roman people has been released from the most disgraceful and cruel slavery by the valour, and military skill, and prudence, and firmness, and perseverance, and greatness of mind and good fortune |
lofty aims and aspirations. but we are conscious that there are evils and dangers in the background greater still, which are not appreciated, because they are either concealed or suppressed. |
that, replied cebes, is quite my notion. |
in this respect he is far below aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. he cannot disentangle the arts from the virtues-at least he is always arguing from one to the other. |
pleased to hang themselves; and now, having resolved to build in that place, i wished to announce it publicly that any of you who may be desirous may go and hang yourselves before i cut it down." |
rags. when they had got over the rough steep ground and were nearing the city, they reached the fountain from which the citizens drew their water. this had been made by ithacus, neritus, and polyctor. |
with this he pointed to his face, and show'd his hand and all his habit smear'd with blood. |
as we disapprove of a child's being taught to understand instruments, and to play like a master (which we would have confined to those who are candidates for the prize in that science; for they play not to improve themselves in virtue, but to please those |
practice has conferred skill at this exercise; and skill has given grace; but they do not exhibit for hire or gain: the only reward of this pastime, though a hazardous one, is the pleasure of the spectators. |
besides, he will not expose anyone to hatred or disrepute by groundless charges, but he will surely cleave to justice and honour so closely that he will submit to any loss, however heavy, rather than be untrue to them, and will face death itself rather |
to more dangerous encounters. reading and writing they gave them, just enough to serve their turn; their chief care was to make them good subjects, and to teach them to endure pain and conquer in battle. |
now our intention in choosing the lives is not that the painful should exceed, but the life in which pain is exceeded by pleasure we have determined to be the more pleasant life. |
two hundred forty kai esti dusmenes te sige . some commentators understand te sige to mean "secretly," like sige , viii. seventy four. |
he sacrifices something, that the enemy may snatch at it. |
the grief of achilles over patroclus-the visit of thetis to vulcan and the armour that he made for achilles. |
and once more zarathustra shook his head and wondered. "what am i to think of it!" said he once more. |
why should not man, retaining still divine similitude in part, from such deformities be free, and, for his maker's image sake, exempt? |
upon this they resolved to go to his relief. |
my revenge to another and better time desires, that still increase as they are fulfilled detest in others the defects which are more manifest in us disdainful, contemplative, serious and grave as the ass do not, nevertheless, always believe myself events |
the duke of sheh asked about government. two. the master said, 'good government obtains, when those who are near are made happy, and those who are far off are attracted.' |
one hundred fifty two besides this the eginetans established on their own account a sacred enclosure dedicated to zeus, the samians one to hera, and the milesians one to apollo. |
in general, in regard both to all that we have already discussed and to those which we shall discuss later, we may remark that that amount of distinction between them may serve, because it is not our purpose to give the exact definition of any of them; we |
for to each thing there answers an entity which has the same name and exists apart from the substances, and so also in the case of all other groups there is a one over many, whether the many are in this world or are eternal. |
but in mixed modes we are much more uncertain; it being not so easy to determine of several actions, whether they are to be called justice or cruelty, liberality or prodigality. |
a narrow path causes quarrels among those who pass up and down it; a wide and broadly spread road may be used by whole tribes without jostling. |
neither are only these generals plainly discover'd and known by me, but also by attentive consideration, i perceive innumerable particulars concerning the shapes , number , and motion of these bodies; the truth whereof is so evident , and agreeable to my |
for it will be easier to attack people when committed to a definition: for an attack is always more easily made on definitions. |
six. "but," say you, "it makes a difference whether you adopt the contemplative life for the sake of your own pleasure, demanding nothing from it save unbroken contemplation without any result: for such a life is a sweet one and has attractions of its |
for it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak, though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old, or rather suffers no one who is truly its servant to grow old, but makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender |
for we started originally with the division of labour; and the diversity of employments was based on the difference of natures. but is there no difference between men and women? nay, are they not wholly different? |
seem to our senses sometimes hot, sometimes cold, sometimes of one colour, smel, tast, or sound, somtimes of another. |
now you could scarcely have succeeded in such a policy even with a neighbour like yourselves; but in the present instance, as we have just shown, your habits are old-fashioned as compared with theirs. |
aequum putabat, propterea quod tam longo spatio multa hereditatibus, multa emptionibus, multa dotibus tenebantur sine iniuria, iudicavit neque illis adimi nec iis non satis fieri, quorum illa fuerant, oportere. |
have hitherto fought with an enemy who has regarded little else but his pleasure and luxury; but if we shut him up within greece, and drive him to necessity, he that is master of such great forces will no longer sit quietly with an umbrella of gold over |
yes, adeimantus, they are stories not to be repeated in our state; the young man should not be told that in committing the worst of crimes he is far from doing anything outrageous; and that even if he chastises his father when he does wrong, in whatever |
and i think that our braver and better youth, besides their other honours and rewards, might have greater facilities of intercourse with women given them; their bravery will be a reason, and such fathers ought to have as many sons as possible. |
callicles: you shall judge for yourself. |
but even though knowledge should, in effect, do as they say, and could blunt the point, and dull the edge, of the misfortunes that attend us, what does she, more than what ignorance does more purely and evidently?--the philosopher pyrrho, being at sea in |
in some places, within my own remembrance, the pines would scrape both sides of a chaise at once, and women and children who were compelled to go this way to lincoln alone and on foot did it with fear, and often ran a good part of the distance. |
calmer rest and an active immanence. the absolute morality is life in the fatherland and for the nation. in the individual however it is the process upward and inward that we see, not the consummation. |
and others are there who are drawn downwards: their devils draw them. but the more they sink, the more ardently gloweth their eye, and the longing for their god. |
serviceable in fighting for than against you, with the advantage, which i now possess, of knowing all the secrets of the enemy that i am attacking. |
it is, therefore, evident that if a man apprehends some relative thing definitely, he necessarily knows that also definitely to which it is related. |
this duke entered romagna with auxiliary troops, leading forces composed entirely of french soldiers, and with these he took imola and forli; but as they seemed unsafe, he had recourse to mercenaries, and hired the orsini and vitelli; afterwards finding |
the public courts decide according to law. |
personal valor and enterprise much the bravest of all the princes of his time, only what he got by great actions he lost again by vain hopes, and by new desires of what he had not, kept nothing of what he had. |
and the property which i have in gina shall be divided by lycon after my decease among the young men there, for the purpose of anointing themselves, in order that the memory of me and of him who honoured me, and who showed his affection by useful |
alexandrus, husband of lovely helen, cheering his men and urging them on to fight. he went up to him and upbraided him. "paris," said he, "evil-hearted paris, fair to see but woman-mad and false of tongue, where are deiphobus and king helenus? |
but suppose that that for the general substance, and more solid part of it, should still cleave unto thee never so close, yet what is that to the proper qualities and affections of it, by which persons are distinguished, which certainly are quite |
both in private and public. now, in such a state, can liberty have any limit? |
note), according as the power of the mind and body may be increased or diminished, c.; and consequently (three. xii.), according as the mind may desire or shrink from the conception of it (three. xiii. coroll.), in other words (three. xiii. |
thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the name 'animal'; yet these are equivocally so named, for, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. |
die for sparta, at length sperthias the son of aneristos and bulis the son of nicolaos, spartans of noble birth and in wealth attaining to the first rank, voluntarily submitted to pay the penalty to xerxes for the heralds of dareios which had perished at |
universal principles into a unity with the world which is his own work. the sexual tie acquires its moral and spiritual significance and function in the family . |
notice, slipped in the intercalary month, which they called mercedonius. |
one hundred fifty five. hearing this on his way, cyrus said to croesus as follows: "croesus, what end shall i find of these things which are coming to pass? the lydians will not cease as it seems, from giving trouble to me and from having it themselves. |
i neither know nor think that i know. in this latter particular, then, i seem to have slightly the advantage of him. then i went to another who had still higher pretensions to wisdom, and my conclusion was exactly the same. |
belonged to that country. tragedy too is claimed by certain dorians of the peloponnese. in each case they appeal to the evidence of language. |
this letter is prefixed to montaigne's translation of the "natural theology" of raymond de sebonde, printed at paris in one thousand five hundred sixty nine. |
i have seen a great many commanders encourage their soldiers with this fatal necessity; for if our time be limited to a certain hour, neither the enemies' shot nor our own boldness, nor our flight and cowardice, can either shorten or prolong our lives. |
who is there in the least degree acquainted with the muses, that is, with liberal knowledge, or that deals at all in learning, who would not choose to be this mathematician rather than that tyrant? |
nevertheless, of all the characters i have known, perhaps walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. |
prop. thirty two. will cannot be called a free cause, but only a necessary cause. |
twenty eight. let these matters then be as they are and as they were at the first: but as to the sources of the nile, not one either of the egyptians or of the libyans or of the hellenes, who came to speech with me, professed to know anything, except the |
such is the nature of spirit, or that which acts, that it cannot be of itself perceived, but only by the effects which it produceth. |
the one a syrian, the other of arcadia, were both slain by a wild boar; that of two whose names were actaeon, the one was torn in pieces by his dogs, the other by his lovers; that of two famous scipios, the one overthrew the carthaginians in war, the |
besides, in the present state of the world, it is practically impossible that writings which are read by the instructed can be kept from the uninstructed. |
-nay! come thou back! with all of thy great tortures! to me the last of lonesome ones, oh, come thou back! all my hot tears in streamlets trickle their course to thee! and all my final hearty fervour- up-glow'th to thee! |
then according to your argument it is just to injure those who do no wrong? |
the two brothers ask socrates to prove to them that the just is happy when they have taken from him all that in which happiness is ordinarily supposed to consist. |
if the contrary is conceivable, namely, that a man should desire to hate someone, in order that he might love him the more thereafter, he will always desire to hate him. |
myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in i went. |
the unrighteous man is apt to pride himself on his cunning; when others call him rogue, he says to himself: 'they only mean that i am one who deserves to live, and not a mere burden of the earth.' |
and hermippus gives the same account in the first book of his history of the magi; and so does eudoxus in his period; and so does theopompus in the eighth book of his history of the affairs of philip; and this last writer tells us also, that according to |
we are all hollow and empty; 'tis not with wind and voice that we are to fill ourselves; we want a more solid substance to repair us: a man starving with hunger would be very simple to seek rather to provide himself with a gay garment than with a good |
a successor he should accept as an announcement of his doom. a compact, so to say, ought to be sealed between them, by which he should retain his province, and the emperor be master of all else. |
i have heard of a judge who, coming upon a sharp conflict betwixt bartolus and aldus, and some point controverted with many contrarieties, writ in the margin of his book, "a question for a friend;" that is to say, that truth was there so controverted and |
this is plain also through sensation: for of things that are the same in kind we have the same sensation, whereas we do not judge clearness by the same sensation in the case of sound and of colour, but in the latter case we judge by sight, in the former |
(a) consciousness proper(one hundred twenty seven). |
in his care to save every single man, he left his main body so often, that at last he found himself alone among the thickest of his enemies. |
"this tree standeth lonely here on the hills; it hath grown up high above man and beast. |
he was soothed by the sympathy which my mere presence implied, and showed me, as well as the darkness permitted, where the well was covered up; which, thank heaven, could never be burned; and he groped long about the wall to find the well-sweep which his |
in the same way the sage is always skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything. this is called 'hiding the light of his procedure.' |
the people, on the other hand, were still more and more excited, insomuch that a little after this, it happening that one of tiberius's friends died suddenly, and his body being marked with malignant-looking spots, they ran, in tumultuous manner, to his |
for then from the same elements will proceed relative terms and substances. what then will this common element be? for (one, a) there is nothing common to and distinct from substance and the other categories, viz. |
being shut up in a large tun with vipers and serpents. blossius of cuma, indeed, was carried before the consuls, and examined touching what had happened, and freely confessed, that he had done, without scruple, whatever tiberius bade him. |
(eighteen.) persepolis: call'd also takht-i-jam-shyd--the throne of jamshyd, "king splendid," of the mythical peshdadian dynasty, and supposed (according to the shah-nama) to have been founded and built by him. |
were on a perfect equality in every sense of the word. (two) to the pious mind it appeared to be a choice made, not by man, but by heaven (compare laws). |
you mean, i said, those gentlemen who tease and torture the strings and rack them on the pegs of the instrument: i might carry on the metaphor and speak after their manner of the blows which the plectrum gives, and make accusations against the strings, |
were a man, whom i know to be honest and opulent, and with whom i live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where i am surrounded with my servants, i rest assured that he is not to stab me before he leaves it in order to rob me of my silver |
though seas and mountains, and vast regions lay between you, still you would hate such a man without seeing him. |
and soon after put the troops to flight with great slaughter. |
they have sometimes belonged, though neither of the substances, so related, be destroyed. |
i purposely reserved the restriction of this judgement to the subjective conditions of our reason, in order not to make use of it until the manner of this belief should be defined more precisely. |
for when you were with me in my tusculan villa, and when each of us was separately in the library opening such books as were suited to our respective tastes and studies, you fell on a treatise of aristotle's called the topics; which he has explained in |
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