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heirs.' then follow the ordinary provisions. after that comes the following clause: 'if my son dies before he comes into the property, which is held in trust for him, then,' says the clause, 'you shall be my reversionary heir.' he never has a son. |
but, at the end of a rather prolonged attempt to understand and translate the surviving tragedies of aeschylus, one feels inclined to repeat the words used by a powerful critic about one of the greatest of modern poets-"for man, it is a weary way to god, |
reply to you, neither a good poor man can be happy in age, nor yet a bad rich man.' |
even after the victory they obtained on their arrival-and a victory there must have been, or the fortifications of the naval camp could never have been built-there is no indication of their whole force having been employed; on the contrary, they seem to |
such equality, we are told, is an unpractical ideal that cannot actually exist. but if its abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we should not at least make regulations concerning it? |
where, after he had for the support of his cause laid open several plausible justifications of the fact, that his master had never looked upon this merveille for other than a private gentleman and his own subject, who was there only in order to his own |
however, that the gods and men alike demanded justice on tigellinus, the very tutor and prompter of all the tyranny. this good man, however, had taken his measures beforehand, in the shape of a present and a promise to vinius. |
this, perhaps, ill-affected and factious men may spread amongst the people, when the prince only makes use of his due prerogative. |
(one hundred may quite well be so related to a and b that one hundred is neither subordinate to a nor a universal attribute of b: for b, since a was said to be primarily disconnected from b, cannot have a genus, and a need not necessarily be a universal |
no, he was delighted at one hundred thirty nine having invented a new kind of punishment. |
athenian: and will he who constitutes the state and orders the life of man have in view external war, or that kind of intestine war called civil, which no one, if he could prevent, would like to have occurring in his own state; and when occurring, every |
may have the means to provide, in general, for all parts of his government. |
soc. what say you? have you never heard of daedalus, (forty nine) how he was seized by minos on account of his wisdom, and forced to be his slave, and robbed of fatherland and freedom at one swoop? |
xenophon, too, does not appear to have been very friendlily disposed towards him: and accordingly they have, as if in rivalry of one another, both written books with the same title, the banquet, the defence of socrates, moral reminiscences. |
that philosophers might easily do this, even now, on many subjects; that the received code of ethics is by no means of divine right; and that mankind have still much to learn as to the effects of actions on the general happiness, i admit, or rather, |
partial truth) and a knowledge,-is the ideal element-the mathematical, the logical, the rational law,-or in one word, the universal and formal character. |
do they secure themselves from the wet and rainy winds, and place their lodgings against the east, without knowing the different qualities of the winds, and considering that one is more wholesome than another? |
abstruse thought and profound researches i prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet |
again, one must inquire which law enjoins, and which forbids anything; for it often happens that the law which forbids something appears by some exception as it were to amend the law which commands something. |
four hundred twenty two. the proximate truth of perception is that it is the object which is an appearance , and that the object's reflection in self is on the contrary a self-subsistent inward and universal. |
wise and cautious indeed he was, as ennius justly describes him--not because he searched for what he could never find, but because he knew how to answer those who prayed for deliverance from cares and difficulties. |
still thou errest, nor end wilt find of erring, from the path of truth remote: unjustly thou depravest it with the name of servitude, to serve whom god ordains, or nature: god and nature bid the same, when he who rules is worthiest, and excels them whom |
the lacedaemonians inspired men not with a mere willingness, but with an absolute desire, to be their subjects. |
us, if you remember, in the previous discussion. |
profane history; that all history is sacred; that the universe is represented in an atom, in a moment of time. he will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity. |
this city, which is absolutely unsuited to the poet-author of 'zarathustra', and for the choice of which i was not responsible, made me inordinately miserable. i tried to leave it. |
fifty two "what say you?" comes antipater's argument on the other side; "it is your duty to consider the interests of your fellow-men and to serve society; you were brought into the world under these conditions and have these inborn principles which you |
indeed, having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it: for, |
though the application of the standard may be difficult, it is better than none at all: while in other systems, the moral laws all claiming independent authority, there is no common umpire entitled to interfere between them; their claims to precedence one |
sixteen. to desire things impossible is the part of a mad man. but it is a thing impossible, that wicked man should not commit some such things. |
neither air nor water is transparent because it is air or water; they are transparent because each of them has contained in it a certain substance which is the same in both and is also found in the eternal body which constitutes the uppermost shell of the |
austin: and tacitus, sanctius est ac reverentius de actis deorum credere, quam scire ; "it is more holy and reverent to believe the works of god than to know them;" and plato thinks there is something of impiety in inquiring too curiously into god, the |
the spear kept on the fatal course, unstay'd by plates of ir'n, which o'er the shield were laid: thro' folded brass and tough bull hides it pass'd, his corslet pierc'd, and reach'd his heart at last. |
some acts perhaps there are for which compulsion cannot be pleaded, but a man should rather suffer the worst and die; how absurd, for instance, are the pleas of compulsion with which alcmaeon in euripides' play excuses his matricide! |
and i think i have observed something like it, but with christian moderation, amongst our own people. |
and he that can tell ten, if he recite them out of order, will lose himselfe, and not know when he has done: much lesse will he be able to add, and substract, and performe all other operations of arithmetique. |
i shall not detain the reader with a description of the successive invention of other arts, the development of language, the trial and utilisation of talents, the inequality of fortunes, the use and abuse of riches, and all the details connected with them |
to or against those who obstinately persist in what they have determined.-when some persons have heard these words, that a man ought to be constant (firm), and that the will is naturally free and not subject to compulsion, but that all other things are |
we have also the use not of one eye only, but of two, which give us a wider range, and help us to discern, by the greater or less acuteness of the angle which the rays of sight form, the distance of an object and its relation to other objects. |
sixty six atque huic arti finitima est dicendi gravior facultas two hundred thirty one et gratior et ornatior. quid enim eloquentia praestabilius vel admiratione audientium vel spe indigentium vel eorum, qui defensi sunt, gratia? |
in truth, his brother, lucius antonius, was present, an asiatic gladiator, who had fought as a mirmillo, thirty four at mylasa; he was thirsting for my blood, and had shed much of his own in that gladiatorial combat. |
act nobly and overcome their enemies in battle. victory is often suicidal to the victors, because it creates forgetfulness of education, but education itself is never suicidal. |
first of all, the universe was made for the gods and men, and all things therein were prepared and provided for our service. |
for as the temporal sword is to be drawn with great circumspection in cases of religion; so it is a thing monstrous to put it into the hands of the common people. let that be left unto the anabaptists, and other furies. |
fifteen. such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. for the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations. |
landing in cardamyle and in bolissus they defeated with heavy loss the chians that took the field against them and, laying desolate the places in that neighbourhood, defeated the chians again in another battle at phanae, and in a third at leuconium. |
the categories of the second class (those of causality and of the necessity of a thing) did not require this homogeneity (of the conditioned and the condition in synthesis), since here what we have to explain is not how the intuition is compounded from a |
we believe something to be for our good which we afterwards find out not to be for our good. the consequences may be inevitable, for they may follow an invariable law, yet they may often be the very opposite of what is expected by us. |
lento in life and action--think of balzac, for instance,--unrestrained workers, almost destroying themselves by work; antinomians and rebels in manners, ambitious and insatiable, without equilibrium and enjoyment; all of them finally shattering and |
there was not one hireling there. i have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it |
nine. can anything be mentioned which is more insane than the ideas of leisure of those people who boast of their worldly wisdom? |
maxim of self-love the objective validity of a law is the principle that determines the will. |
socrates: he, then, has the first place in the scale of happiness who has never had vice in his soul; for this has been shown to be the greatest of evils. |
thrasea has his followers or rather his satellites, who copy, not indeed as yet the audacious tone of his sentiments, but only his manners and his looks, a sour and gloomy set, bent on making your mirthfulness a reproach to you. |
we may certainly collect from phenomena a law, according to which this or that usually happens, but the element of necessity is not to be found in it. |
wake, son of venus, from thy pleasing dreams; and, when the setting stars are lost in day, to juno's pow'r thy just devotion pay; with sacrifice the wrathful queen appease: her pride at length shall fall, her fury cease. |
the storm now increasing and their victuals failing, they left their ship and wandered up and down without any certain purpose, simply as in great distresses people shun the present as the greatest evil, and rely upon the hopes of uncertainties. |
i look upon england to-day as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox and bundle. |
practice of every virtue. for at present we are enervated by the softness of our imaginations, so that, should we leave this world before the promises of our fortune-tellers are made good to us, we should think ourselves deprived of some great advantages, |
a life of the author and all his recovered letters, sixteen in number, have also been given; but, as regards the correspondence, it can scarcely be doubted that it is in a purely fragmentary state. |
and besides these three things he added further, "to rule one's tongue, especially at a banquet, and not to speak ill of one's neighbours; for if one does so one is sure to hear what one will not like." |
and antisthenes took it for an argument of little value in ismenias that he was commended for playing excellently well upon a flute. |
around, and so fortified at all points, should be taken naked and unprovided. |
that, i replied, is a sorry consolation; i shall destroy my friends as well as myself. not that i mind a little innocent laughter; but he who kills the truth is a murderer. |
but there was cast between them (as between dogs) a bit of meat, a handsome woman, and about her war arose. |
what makes the constitution of a state really solid and lasting is the due observance of what is proper, so that the natural relations are always in agreement with the laws on every point, and law only serves, so to speak, to assure, accompany and rectify |
in earnest, there are few souls so regular, firm, and well descended, as are to be trusted with their own conduct, and that can with moderation, and without temerity, sail in the liberty of their own judgments, beyond the common and received opinions; tis |
twenty eight. what is most difficult to render from one language into another is the tempo of its style, which has its basis in the character of the race, or to speak more physiologically, in the average tempo of the assimilation of its nutriment. |
kinsfolk and friends were not allowed to be near them, to weep over them, or even to gaze on them too long. |
the wild-goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in canada, takes a luncheon in the ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. |
its march thus:--xerxes had divided the whole land-army into three divisions, and one of them he had set to go along the sea accompanying the fleet, of which division mardonios and masistes were commanders; another third of the army had been appointed to |
that which gave most pleasure and ornament to the city of athens, and the greatest admiration and even astonishment to all strangers, and that which now is greece's only evidence that the power she boasts of and her ancient wealth are no romance or idle |
we cannot give any more precise meaning to this remarkable passage, but we may trace in it several rudiments or vestiges of thought which are common to us and to plato: such as (one) the unity and correlation of the sciences, or rather of science, for in |
let us admit that the soul knows or perceives the elements out of which each of these composites is made up; but by what means will it know or perceive the composite whole, e.g. what god, man, flesh, bone (or any other compound) is? |
though he sometimes affirms the opposite, there is no security on his principles that the will of the majority will be the general will. |
nay, when i walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts are some part of the time taken up with external occurrences, i some part of the time call them back again to my walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness of that solitude, and to myself. |
"i think, therefore, that we ought to take great numbers of heavy infantry, both from athens and from our allies, and not merely from our subjects, but also any we may be able to get for love or for money in peloponnese, and great numbers also of archers |
and as to the oracle which was given, croesus finds fault with good ground: for loxias told him beforehand that if he should march upon the persians he should destroy a great empire: and he upon hearing this, if he wished to take counsel well, ought to |
end to the war not being able to govern events, i govern myself not believe from one, i should not believe from a hundred not certain to live till i came home not conceiving things otherwise than by this outward bark not conclude too much upon your |
other libyans. their women wear a bronze ring one hundred fifty upon each leg, and they have long hair on their heads, and when they catch their lice, each one bites her own in retaliation and then throws them away. |
if such despots perish by the vengeance of the better citizens, as is generally the case, the constitution is re-established; but if they fall by the hands of bold insurgents, then the same faction succeeds them, which is only another species of tyranny. |
for it is possible for a thing to be and not to be self-moved, and likewise, also, for it to be and not to be white. |
the people claiming the penalty of death and prosecuted him for his deception of the athenians: and miltiades did not himself make his own defence, although he was present, for he was unable to do so because his thigh was mortifying; but he lay in public |
it recommends an universal doubt, not only of all our former opinions and principles, but also of our very faculties; of whose veracity, say they, we must assure ourselves, by a chain of reasoning, deduced from some original principle, which cannot |
holy ghost): for there is no good inclination, that is not of the operation of god. but these operations are not alwaies supernaturall. |
them and with their shepherds. in quest of these ulysses took a long journey while still quite young, for his father and the other chieftains sent him on a mission to recover them. |
"there is," says menon, "the virtue of a man and of a woman, of a magistrate and of a private person, of an old man and of a child." "very fine," cried socrates, "we were in quest of one virtue, and thou hast brought us a whole swarm." |
they often caused their hair to be pinched off, as the women of france have some time since taken up a custom to do their foreheads, |
things, then, that are continuous in any way called one, even if they admit of being bent, and still more those which cannot be bent; e.g. the shin or the thigh is more one than the leg, because the movement of the leg need not be one. |
glaucon thinks that thrasymachus was too ready to listen to the voice of the charmer, and proposes to consider the nature of justice and injustice in themselves and apart from the results and rewards of them which the world is always dinning in his ears. |
overcome by these arguments, the emperor preferred domitius to his own son, though he was but two years older, and made a speech in the senate, the same in substance as the representations of his freedman. |
do it, but because we seize them with an unruly and immoderate haste: |
not authorizing the transcendental employment of them. |
it is characteristic of the germans that the question: "what is german?" never dies out among them. kotzebue certainly knew his germans well enough: "we are known," they cried jubilantly to him--but sand also thought he knew them. |
yet the thesis, 'corruptio optimi pessima,' cannot be maintained generally or without regard to the kind of excellence which is corrupted. the alien conditions which are corrupting to one nature, may be the elements of culture to another. |
the causes and the crimes relate; what goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; for what offence the queen of heav'n began to persecute so brave, so just a man; involv'd his anxious life in endless cares, expos'd to wants, and hurried into wars! |
it. of which truth i can make no doubt, unless it seems, that from hence it will follow, that therefore i can never err ; for if whatever i have, i have from god , and if he gave me no faculty of erring , one may seem not to be able to err . |
contributing to the wants of others with money; and once, when some one had borrowed from him some articles of silver plate to help him entertain his friends, and did not offer to return them, he never asked for them back or reclaimed them; but some say |
rest, no more nor less than rhubarb, that drives out the ill humours, and carries itself off with them. this fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: "what do i know?" as i bear it with the emblem of a balance. |
and it is stated, that his two daughters were publicly married out of the prytaneum, or state-house, by the city, which decreed each of them three thousand drachmas for her portion; and that upon his son lysimachus, the people bestowed a hundred minas of |
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