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speech against cato, crying out, he was forced to fly from his tyranny, and this conspiracy against pompey; that the city would soon repent their having dishonored so great a man. |
this day at highth of noon came to my sphere a spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know more of the almighty's works, and chiefly man, god's latest image: i described his way bent all on speed, and marked his aery gait; but in the mount that lies from eden |
it was wellington, i think, who said that the hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. |
there by the same practices he drew on himself, fresh odium and revived the old; stripped of his property and outlawed, he wore out his old age on the rock of seriphos. |
twenty one. m. perhaps i may find something to say; but i will make this observation first: do you take notice with what modesty the academics behave themselves? for they speak plainly to the purpose. |
thus cicero returned sixteen months after his exile, and the cities were so glad, and people so zealous to meet him, that what he boasted of afterwards, that italy had brought him on her shoulders home to rome, was rather less than the truth. |
"as being always quiet by nature, so also now by age." --cicero, de petit. consul., c. two. |
after you have made your elections, come back to the middle of the camp, and bring the newly appointed officers. after that, we will there summon a general meeting of the soldiers. let tolmides, the herald," he added, "be in attendance." |
there were fifty pigs wallowing in each stye, all of them breeding sows; but the boars slept outside and were much fewer in number, for the suitors kept on eating them, and the swineherd had to send them the best he had continually. |
certainly be the best; or if you make a show as if you would environ the kennel with fire, that one she first catches up to save. |
having told fannia this story, he bade the chamber door to be shut and went to rest. |
umbro the priest the proud marrubians led, by king archippus sent to turnus' aid, and peaceful olives crown'd his hoary head. his wand and holy words, the viper's rage, and venom'd wounds of serpents could assuage. |
and that friendship is sweetest which is cemented by congeniality of character. |
round, but would even contemptuously and confidently attack the ramparts. |
but i could procure ease by no means better than by not only applying myself to books, but by devoting myself to the examination of the whole body of philosophy. |
socrates: now, if there be any sort of good which is distinct from knowledge, virtue may be that good; but if knowledge embraces all good, then we shall be right in thinking that virtue is knowledge? |
fifty five. but secondly, though we should grant a notion to be never so universally and steadfastly adhered to, yet this is weak argument of its truth to whoever considers what a vast number of prejudices and false opinions are everywhere embraced with |
three hundred eighty one. the bhikshu, full of delight, who is calm in the doctrine of buddha will reach the quiet place (nirvana), cessation of natural desires, and happiness. |
thus antony went out of the senate with the highest possible reputation and esteem; for it was apparent that he had prevented a civil war, and had composed, in the wisest and most statesman-like way, questions of the greatest difficulty and embarrassment. |
there is more danger to be feared than from any nation whatever. others say that he is willing to give up the nearer gaul to us, and that he will be satisfied with the further gaul. very kind of him! |
are poisoned fountains necessary, and stinking fires, and filthy dreams, and maggots in the bread of life? |
from jove he came commission'd, heav'nly bright with radiant beams, and manifest to sight (the sender and the sent i both attest) these walls he enter'd, and those words express'd. |
from the many splendid examples in history, therefore, we could not easily point to one either more praiseworthy or more heroic than the conduct of regulus. |
now, from what has been here said, that is also plain which was said before. |
socrates: and then you will tell me about virtue? |
the lightning, a volcano, or some lucky chance acquainted them with fire, a new resource against the rigours of winter: they next learned how to preserve this element, then how to reproduce it, and finally how to prepare with it the flesh of animals which |
this is so evident, that barclay himself, that great assertor of the power and sacredness of kings, is forced to confess, that it is lawful for the people, in some cases, to resist their king; and that too in a chapter, wherein he pretends to shew, that |
but if the command be such, as cannot be obeyed, without being damned to eternall death, then it were madnesse to obey it, and the counsell of our saviour takes place, (mat. ten. |
things without movement); yet their discussions and investigations are all about nature; for they generate the heavens, and with regard to their parts and attributes and functions they observe the phenomena, and use up the principles and the causes in |
he would abolish altogether 'the connexion of men with men...as to women, if any man has to do with any but those who come into his house duly married by sacred rites, and he offends publicly in the face of all mankind, we shall be right in enacting that |
were intending to share it among themselves, taking each in turn the sum of ten drachmas. |
not that which really is, or what she really believes, but what she has contrived with the greatest and most plausible likelihood of truth, and the quaintest invention. |
we are now taking our examples from the traditional class-names, but we must not confine ourselves to considering these. |
the senate made a decree, to place all in the hands of the consuls, who should undertake the conduct of everything, and do their best to save the state. this was not a common thing, but only done by the senate in case of imminent danger. |
and let us immediately add that she is also losing taste. she is unlearning to fear man: but the woman who "unlearns to fear" sacrifices her most womanly instincts. |
the deplorable condition of the literature of to-day, both in germany and other countries, is due to the fact that books are written for the sake of earning money. |
phaedrus: i am fortunate in not having my sandals, and as you never have any, i think that we may go along the brook and cool our feet in the water; this will be the easiest way, and at midday and in the summer is far from being unpleasant. |
feeling would lead him to indulge his sorrow, but reason and law control him and enjoin patience; since he cannot know whether his affliction is good or evil, and no human thing is of any great consequence, while sorrow is certainly a hindrance to good |
"i am not a wise man, and i will not be one in order to feed your spite: so do not require me to be on a level with the best of men, but merely to be better than the worst: i am satisfied, if every day i take away something from my vices and correct my |
in the latter case their position is weaker and more dangerous, for they are at the mercy of those citizens who are appointed magistrates, who can, especially in times of adversity, with great facility deprive them of their position, either by acting |
i am host, and the other chiefs, antinous and eurymachus, both of them men of understanding, are of the same mind as i am." |
and there they were slain in heaps upon one another, leaving to the conqueror a very bloody and entire victory. |
that is a bad definition, when it either describes common things in this manner:--"he is seditious who is a bad and useless citizen;" for this does not describe the character of a seditious man more than of an ambitious one,--of a calumniator, than of any |
but is utility the only creed which is able to furnish us with excuses for evil doing, and means of cheating our own conscience? |
for you meet with many who, through a desire of victory, or for glory, or to maintain their rights, or their liberty, have boldly received wounds, and borne themselves up under them; and yet those very same persons, by relaxing that intenseness of their |
the author, or legislator is supposed in every common-wealth to be evident, because he is the soveraign, who having been constituted by the consent of every one, is supposed by every one to be sufficiently known. |
we met: not one was wanting; only she deceiv'd her friends, her son, and wretched me. |
whereas there be, that pretend divine inspiration, to be a supernaturall entring of the holy ghost into a man, and not an acquisition of gods grace, by doctrine, and study; i think they are in a very dangerous dilemma. |
the master said, 'the fang bird does not come; the river sends forth no map:-- it is all over with me!' chap. nine. |
having laid down these premises concerning relation in general, i shall now proceed to show, in some instances, how all the ideas we have of relation are made up, as the others are, only of simple ideas; and that they all, how refined or remote from sense |
but when you added, shortly afterwards, that the rhetorician might make a bad use of rhetoric i noted with surprise the inconsistency into which you had fallen; and i said, that if you thought, as i did, that there was a gain in being refuted, there would |
the men whom i have named now consulted how these conversations might fall within the hearing of more persons. |
those men at more than the whole country of thessaly. he therefore made terms with them, and received his men again upon composition. |
cleinias: then what are we to do in our own country, stranger, seeing that there are such differences in the treatment of slaves by their owners? |
these founded thebes with its seven gates, and built a wall all round it; for strong though they were they could not hold thebes till they had walled it. |
two days were frittered away over this mockery of a trial, tiberius urging piso's children to defend their mother. |
this answer given to aetion was by some means reported to the bacchiadai, to whom the oracle which had come to corinth before this was not intelligible, an oracle which had reference to the same thing as that of aetion and said thus: |
the snow lying deep on the earth dotted with young pines, and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, forward! nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. she has long ago taken her resolution. |
he who ventures to answer these metaphysical questions at once by an appeal to a sort of intuitive perception, like the person who says, "i think, and know that this, at least, is true, actual, and certain"--will encounter a smile and two notes of |
i have observed one rise and a part of two falls, and one expect that a dozen or fifteen years hence the water will again be as low as i have ever known it. |
the reason is that when two things are so related to one another, that if the one is, the other necessarily is, then if the latter is not, the former will not be either, but if the latter is, it is not necessary that the former should be. |
cleinias: excellent; and now let us begin to frame the state. |
camillus triumphed, as he deserved, having saved his country that was lost, and brought the city, so to say, back again to itself. |
where no civill law is, there is no crime |
but when charon returned, and found the men prepared, not as if they hoped for safety and success, but to die bravely and with the slaughter of their enemies, he told pelopidas and his friends the truth, but pretended to others in the house that archias |
when i consider my affairs at distance and in gross, i find, because perhaps my memory is none of the best, that they have gone on hitherto improving beyond my reason or expectation; my revenue seems greater than it is; its prosperity betrays me: but when |
the iceni, a powerful tribe, which war had not weakened, as they had voluntarily joined our alliance, were the first to resist. |
it has two entrances, one facing north by which mortals can go down into the cave, while the other comes from the south and is more mysterious; mortals cannot possibly get in by it, it is the way taken by the gods. |
if i have left them any cause to complain of me, 'tis rather to have found in me, in comparison of the modern use, a love foolishly conscientious than anything else. |
there you are right, he said, since we have made them to share in all things like the men. |
when they entered to plead their cause, a smile of joy on any of the conspirators, a casual conversation, a sudden meeting, or the fact of having entered a banquet or a public show in company, was construed into a crime, while to the savage questionings |
you, on the other hand, who are capable of either, ought to speak shorter as i beg you, and then we might converse. |
useless, unprofitable man. by chance an alexandrian was then riding by the door; him they threw off, and setting hippitas on horseback, ran through the streets, and proclaimed liberty to the people. |
this respect-inspiring idea of personality which sets before our eyes the sublimity of our nature (in its higher aspect), while at the same time it shows us the want of accord of our conduct with it and thereby strikes down self-conceit, is even natural |
wherefore they are all to be put into the balance, and first the generals and those that tyrannize over us. |
cheat fate at the same time: when at last some weakness reminds them that they three hundred four are mortal, they die as it were in terror: they may rather be said to be dragged out of this life than to depart from it. |
exercises. nor did he only show him, too, how to throw a dart, to fight in armor, and to ride, but to box also and to endure both heat and cold, and to swim over the most rapid and rough rivers. |
would he not be a bad manager of any animals who received them gentle, and made them fiercer than they were when he received them? what do you say? |
reasonings of the former kind will necessarily be hard to follow owing to their length, for we assume an audience of untrained thinkers; those of the latter kind will fail to win assent, because they are based on premisses that are not generally admitted |
vitae cursum sequi vellent; in qua deliberatione ad suam cuiusque naturam consilium est omne revocandum. |
being hindered as to our readings, but we should be satisfied with doing the acts which are conformable (to the relations), and we should be reckoning not what so far we have been accustomed to reckon: to-day i have read so many verses, i have written so |
extremum autem praeceptum in beneficiis operaque danda, ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro iniuria; fundamentum enim est perpetuae commendationis et famae iustitia, sine qua nihil potest esse laudabile. |
(eleven) also though both premisses are false the conclusion may be true. for it is possible that a may belong to no b and to some one hundred, while b belongs to no one hundred, e.g. |
it is reported, that as cornelia, their mother, bore the loss of her two sons with a noble and undaunted spirit, so, in reference to the holy places in which they were slain, she said, their dead bodies were well worthy of such sepulchres. |
assumed homogeneous element, found or assumed to be perfectly imaginable (conceivable). |
for her, and brought her supper for her into her own room. |
if then it is day, the axiom put before one is true; but if it is not day, the axiom is false. |
verily, a fine catch of fish hath zarathustra made to-day! it is not a man he hath caught, but a corpse. |
accordingly, he does not approve of a style which is lowly and abject, or of one which is too lofty and, as it were, on stilts: but still he wishes for one full of dignity, in order to strike those who hear it with the greater admiration. |
when they had thrown down their great logs of wood over the whole ground, they stayed all of them where they were, but achilles ordered his brave myrmidons to gird on their armour, and to yoke each man his horses; they therefore rose, girded on their |
it is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future; since all these arguments are founded on the supposition of that resemblance. |
down and collect that which runs away from them. the oil is fat and not less suitable for burning than olive-oil, but it gives forth a disagreeable smell. |
"the stork with snakes and lizards from the wood and pathless wilds supports her callow brood, while jove's own eagle, bird of noble blood, scours the wide country for undaunted food; sweeps the swift hare or swifter fawn away, and feeds her nestlings |
socrates: and are not these pleasures or goods present to those who rejoice-if they do rejoice? |
who knows whether all human kind commit not the like absurdity, for want of some sense, and that through this default the greatest part of the face of things is concealed from us? |
four modality problematical assertorical apodeictical |
if they wish to make peace with the athenians, they shall make peace also jointly. |
but how constantly does he harp on the expression "the consul antonius!" this amounts to say "that most debauched consul," "that most worthless of men, the consul." for what else is antonius? |
only useful, but, in virtue of its system, be even to some extent elegant. |
a similar view is expressed by those who make the elements more than one; for these also must say that unity and being are precisely all the things which they say are principles. |
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