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if we examined the other divisions in the same manner, we should find that, whenever sovereignty seems to be divided, there is an illusion: the rights which are taken as being part of sovereignty are really all subordinate, and always imply supreme wills |
the obvious portions of extension that affect our senses, carry with them into the mind the idea of finite: and the ordinary periods of succession, whereby we measure time and duration, as hours, days, and years, are bounded lengths. |
he sent for all the boys of noblest parentage out of all their tribes, and placed them in the great city of osca, where he appointed masters to instruct them in the grecian and roman learning, that when they came to be men, they might, as he professed, be |
protagoras would deny the continuity of phenomena; he would say that what is different is entirely different, and whether active or passive has a different power. |
in fine, they so melted and unmanned him, that, fully believing she would die if he forsook her, he put off the war and returned to alexandria, deferring his median expedition until next summer, though news came of the parthians being all in confusion |
i have now a thing which i am very anxious indeed to mention to you, and with your permission i will do so." |
but there was one paper in libo's handwriting, so the prosecutor alleged, with the names of caesars and of senators, to which marks were affixed of dreadful or mysterious significance. |
soc. what is a handicraftsman? does not the term apply to all who can make any sort of useful product or commodity? |
justice of men, and justice of actions what |
nicagoras at the moment smiled at the conceit; but a few days after, he put cleomenes in mind of the estate that he had bought of him, and desired his money, protesting, that he would not have troubled him, if his merchandise had turned out as profitable |
"et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem." |
who wrought my studious numbers smoothly once in happier days, now perforce in tears and sadness learn a mournful strain to raise. |
then, if in the midst of our talk there should happen some greater noise than usual, or some of those who are present should laugh at us, we are disturbed. philosopher, where are the things which you were talking about? |
fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. again, it is sometimes like sibylla's offer; which at first, offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price. |
who is there that has not felt in desire what the wise man says of hope, (which is not much different from it,) that it being 'deferred makes the heart sick'; and that still proportionable to the greatness of the desire, which sometimes raises the |
have now declared; for whenever in passing my judgement, i bridle my will so that it extend it self only to those things which i clearly and distinctly perceive, it is impossible that i can err . |
persons of the dialogue: apollodorus, who repeats to his companion the dialogue which he had heard from aristodemus, and had already once narrated to glaucon. |
i should have to say my prayers in good earnest if i did; but it is just supper time and i hope my men will come in directly, that we may cook something savoury for supper." |
on the day, too, on which the praetor antistius was being sentenced to death for libels on nero, thrasea proposed and carried a more merciful decision. |
both parts may contract now, to performe hereafter: in which cases, he that is to performe in time to come, being trusted, his performance is called keeping of promise, or faith; and the fayling of performance (if it be voluntary) violation of faith. |
of course it is true that, during an engagement, or when in close touch with the enemy, the general should not be in the thick of his own troops, but a little distance apart. |
one vest array'd the corpse; and one they spread o'er his clos'd eyes, and wrapp'd around his head, that, when the yellow hair in flame should fall, the catching fire might burn the golden caul. |
"'tis not by the value of possessions, but by our daily subsistence and tillage, that our riches are truly estimated." --cicero, paradox, vi. three. |
him, to preach, at least, the way to rome, if not to walk therein.--that these last words may not be misunderstood, i will call to my aid a few powerful rhymes, which will even betray to less delicate ears what i mean--what i mean counter to the "last |
we should require many examples of this if we were to inquire into every sort of translation, but because the principle on which the rules proceed is similar, we have no need of a superfluity of instances. |
it is proper rather to comedy, where those who, in the piece, are the deadliest enemies--like orestes and aegisthus--quit the stage as friends at the close, and no one slays or is slain. |
all voting is a sort of gaming, like chequers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. the character of the voters is not staked. |
i propose therefore that we enquire into the nature of justice and injustice, first as they appear in the state, and secondly in the individual, proceeding from the greater to the lesser and comparing them. |
how does the noble man betray himself, how is he recognized under this heavy overcast sky of the commencing plebeianism, by which everything is rendered opaque and leaden?--it is not his actions which establish his claim--actions are always ambiguous, |
one hundred one now we find that the essential activity of the spirit is twofold: one force is appetite (that is, , in greek), which impels a man this way and that; the other is reason, which teaches and explains what should be done and what should be |
for if you are in earnest, and what you say is true, is not the whole of human life turned upside down; and are we not doing, as would appear, in everything the opposite of what we ought to be doing? |
the exoteric treatise), and so that state of mind, conjoined with reason, which is apt to do, is distinct from that also conjoined with reason, which is apt to make: and for this reason they are not included one by the other, that is, doing is not making, |
"again, your country has a right to your services in sustaining the glories of her position. these are a common source of pride to you all, and you cannot decline the burdens of empire and still expect to share its honours. |
and suppose that we answer, 'yes, he can, when he thinks what is not true.'--that will be our answer? |
but the idolatry of the wretched hindoo, when he adores the ape, or other creature, is still a long way from that wretched fancy of a pantheism, to which everything is god, and god everything. |
but, the accuser answers, the two men (four) who wrought the greatest evils to the state at any time--to wit, critias and alcibiades--were both companions of socrates--critias the oligarch, and alcibiades the democrat. |
we may now consider the above points settled, and pass on to say something about the way to devise lively and taking sayings. their actual invention can only come through natural talent or long practice; but this treatise may indicate the way it is done. |
why do we deprive them of soul, of life, and discourse? have we discovered in them any immoveable or insensible stupidity, we who have no commerce with them but by obedience? |
now the flatterers of caesar were the occasion of all this, who, among other invidious honors which they strove to fasten upon caesar, crowned his statues by night with diadems, wishing to incite the people to salute him king instead of dictator. |
the term seems to be used in the way we have mentioned, like 'medical' and 'healthy'. for each of these also we use in many senses. |
"we have stated, then, when a thing is to be said to exist potentially and when it is not. |
supposed to have seen, at evening, one or other of them, not both together. |
to obey, then are those canons, not onely rules, but laws: the question therefore here, is of the power to make the scriptures (which are the rules of christian faith) laws. |
yes, he said, i quite agree with you in thinking that our youth should be trained in music and on the grounds which you mention. |
other things, who know not this at all, because they never set their thoughts on work about such angles. |
it seems as if there were some lucky and some unlucky faces; and i believe there is some art in distinguishing affable from merely simple faces, severe from rugged, malicious from pensive, scornful from melancholic, and such other bordering qualities. |
began to leave their old way, and to follow this. i am not sorry that we should here take notice of the barbarous horror of so cruel an action, but that, seeing so clearly into their faults, we should be so blind to our own. |
whence did you produce and utter them? from the lips, and thence only. why then do you corrupt the aids provided by others? why do you treat the weightiest matters as if you were playing a game of dice? |
as it was late they entered with the water-carriers within the stockade to visit the headman of the village. |
i have read the letter of antonius which he sent to one of the septemviri, a thoroughpaced scoundrel, a colleague of his own, "look out, and see what you take a fancy to, what you do fancy you shall certainly have". |
lastly, they urge that some of the greatest philosophers would never have made that progress in their studies without some ardent desire spurring them on.--we are informed that pythagoras, democritus, and plato visited the remotest parts of the world; for |
he knew not what he was asking, nor that he was suing for his own destruction. achilles was deeply moved and answered, "what, noble patroclus, are you saying? |
(four) see grote, "h. g." viii. four hundred fifty seven; plut. "solon," xxix. |
of hunting there are many kinds--hunting of fish and fowl, man and beast, enemies and friends; and the legislator can neither omit to speak about these things, nor make penal ordinances about them all. 'what is he to do then?' |
however, it points to the third term as being a calculation of numbers. |
make compendiums of them, saying that these ought to be committed to memory, if a man is to be made good and wise by experience and learning of many things. and you want me now to tell them plainly in what they are right and in what they are wrong. |
under arms with funeral accompaniment, though it may be |
i have heard, i said, that you can speak and teach others to speak about the same things at such length that words never seemed to fail, or with such brevity that no one could use fewer of them. |
then they would see the world transformed into a scene of heavenly beauty; a divine idea would accompany them in all their thoughts and actions. |
if he were a hunter to that one of his servants whom he trusted most, he sent him away to the land of the persians, enjoining him by word of mouth to give the hare to cyrus, and to tell him at the same time to open it with his own hands and let no one |
(one) reading with the best mss., sozoisthe . agasias ends his sentence with a prayer. al. sozesthe , "act so that each," etc. |
and the same may be said of the immortal: if the immortal is also imperishable, the soul when attacked by death cannot perish; for the preceding argument shows that the soul will not admit of death, or ever be dead, any more than three or the odd number |
that the lacedaemonians should bring to pylos and deliver up to the athenians the ships that had fought in the late engagement, and all in laconia that were vessels of war, and should make no attack on the fortification either by land or by sea. |
yes; and i think that our principles are right, he said. |
plato's bravery, again, is fortitude and consistency of soul, the full-blooded heart which is fixed in reason, the zeal which is according to knowledge, unflinching loyalty to the idea, the spirit which burns in the martyrs to truth and humanity: yet |
the soul's advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line, but rather by ascension of state, such as can be represented by metamorphosis,-from the egg to the worm, from the worm to the fly. |
nevertheless many also derided galba, amongst the rest mithridates of pontus, saying, that as soon as this wrinkled, bald-headed man should be seen publicly at rome, they would think it an utter disgrace ever to have had such a caesar. |
on this understanding, they exchanged pledges and were gone. the next day they returned, bringing three hundred canoes, each hollowed out of a single trunk. |
similarly if the syllogism is not universal but particular, e.g. if a belongs to no b, and b to some one hundred. convert the negative statement and you will have the middle figure. |
socrates: yes, that is the true and only way in which any subject can be set forth or treated by rules of art, whether in speaking or writing. |
at the same time, he is in most profound earnest, as chaerephon remarks. callicles soon loses his temper, but the more he is irritated, the more provoking and matter of fact does socrates become. |
sciences, the mathematicians alone have been able to find any demonstrations, that is, any certain and evident reasons, i did not doubt but that such must have been the rule of their investigations. |
generally they call them masters, but in democratic states they simply call them rulers. |
nay, have we not the authority of hesiod for affirming that when they are dead |
mover in this matter. if i have set the fashion of stone-throwing or any other sort of violence i condemn myself--i say that i deserve the extreme penalty, and i will submit to undergo it. |
"as a just balance, pressed with equal weight, neither dips nor rises on either side."--tibullus, iv. forty one. |
the politician will acquire greater foresight and subtility, in the subdividing and balancing of power; the lawyer more method and finer principles in his reasonings; and the general more regularity in his discipline, and more caution in his plans and |
yes, to that council which is to have all virtue, and which should aim directly at the mark. 'very true.' the inconsistency of legislation in most states is not surprising, when the variety of their objects is considered. |
of men and customs mighty rome consists; |
that most arrogant persian king, eight when his army stretched over vast plains and could not be counted but only measured, burst into tears at the thought that in less than a hundred years none of all those warriors would be alive: yet their death was |
romulus was conceived in his mother's womb the first year of the second olympiad, the twenty-third day of the month the egyptians call choeac, and the third hour after sunset, at which time there was a total eclipse of the sun; that he was born the |
pol.); but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. wherefore the legislator ought not to allow the education of children to become a secondary or accidental matter. |
for while it is true that what is self-identical and undivided may be both contraries at once potentially, it cannot be self-identical in its being-it must lose its unity by being put into activity. |
heart, at which he had said that he aimed. he one hundred thirty two then had his breast cut open, showed the arrow sticking exactly into the heart, and, looking at the boy's father, asked whether his hand was not steady enough. |
"i trouble the gods no farther."--horace, od., ii. eighteen, eleven. |
sometimes too we qualify the metaphor by adding the term to which the proper word is relative. thus the cup is to dionysus as the shield to ares. the cup may, therefore, be called 'the shield of dionysus,' and the shield 'the cup of ares.' |
so in the night that is past while sleeping i saw the eldest of thy sons having upon his shoulders wings, and with the one of these he overshadowed asia and with the other europe. |
sixteen. remember that all is but opinion, and all opinion depends of the mind. |
but omitting an exact comparison of their respective faculties in speaking, yet thus much seems fit to be said; that demosthenes, to make himself a master in rhetoric, applied all the faculties he had, natural or acquired, wholly that way; that he far |
cornelia's expectation. for she, by all the former messages and letters sent to please her, had been put in hopes that the war was ended at dyrrhachium, and that there was nothing more remaining for pompey, but the pursuit of caesar. |
of some of his most excellent thoughts. such an author presents grave, if not insuperable, difficulties to the translator, but notwithstanding this fact, the following pages cannot but impress the reader with the genius of tacitus. |
caught them and put these about their necks, and so let them go, from which time they in a manner knew and saluted the soldiers,) and whenever these appeared in their marches, they used to rejoice at it, and thought themselves sure of some success. |
that a few original ideas may be made to signify a great number of effects and actions, it is necessary they be variously combined together. |
sixty eight. "i did that," says my memory. "i could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. eventually--the memory yields. |
country; but a man who arms himself with eloquence in such a manner as not to oppose the advantage of his country, but to be able to contend in behalf of them, he appears to me to be one who both as a man and a citizen will be of the greatest service to |
i here set down nothing new. these are common thoughts, and having, peradventure, conceived them an hundred times, i am afraid i have set them down somewhere else already. |
for i have brought the speakers, as it were, personally on to my stage to prevent the constant "said i" and "said he" of a narrative, and to give the discourse the air of being orally delivered in our hearing. |
and hence they do all that they can to avoid punishment and to avoid being released from the greatest of evils; they provide themselves with money and friends, and cultivate to the utmost their powers of persuasion. |
and in the natural world of ethics-where true moral life has not yet arisen-this is mere retaliation or the lex talionis ;-the beginning of an endless series of vengeance and counter-vengeance, the blood-feud. |
we do not go, we are driven; like things that float, now leisurely, then with violence, according to the gentleness or rapidity of the current: |
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