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now grief and all other perturbations are doubtless baneful in their progress, and have, therefore, no small share of evil at the beginning; for they go on of themselves when once they depart from reason, for every weakness is self-indulgent, and |
themselves. now if we take the attributes of existence of things in time for attributes of things in themselves (which is the common view), then it is impossible to reconcile the necessity of the causal relation with freedom; they are contradictory. |
undetected, but that justice is a man's own loss and another's gain-these things we shall forbid them to utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite. |
further, some animals possess all these parts of soul, some certain of them only, others one only (this is what enables us to classify animals); the cause must be considered later.' |
explanation.--we have said above, in the note to prop. ix. |
in the next place, it will be desirable to invalidate by opposite arguments those topics which are handled by the prosecutor in such a way that they are capable of being refuted and retorted, of which kind are the three last topics which i have mentioned. |
each day grow older, and learn something new |
and yet they are left to the mercy of parents, let them be as foolish and ill-conditioned as they may, without any manner of discretion." |
"as to the heavenly phnomena, such as the motion and course of the stars, the eclipses, their rising and setting, and all other appearances of the same kind, we must beware of thinking that they are produced by any particular being which has regulated, or |
universal affirmative to universal negative, universal affirmative to particular negative, particular affirmative to universal negative, and particular affirmative to particular negative: but really there are only three: for the particular affirmative is |
it calls into my mind, tho' then a child, when teucer came, from salamis exil'd, and sought my father's aid, to be restor'd: my father belus then with fire and sword invaded cyprus, made the region bare, and, conqu'ring, finish'd the successful war. |
the senate, to give them the honor they had deserved, ordained that funeral orations should be used at the obsequies of women as well as men, it having never before been a custom that any woman after death should receive any public eulogy. |
let us return to the lawgiver and say to him, 'well, lawgiver, no such fear-producing potion has been given by god or invented by man, but there is a potion which will make men fearless.' 'you mean wine.' |
as the greek legislators their tables, he had written out for himself, but had so long inculcated the contents of them, whilst he lived, into the minds and hearts of the priests, that their understandings became fully possessed with the whole spirit and |
hearing this, cyrus bade the interpreters ask croesus who was this person on whom he called; and they came near and asked. |
she was a phocaean by birth, the daughter of one hermotimus, and, when cyrus fell in battle, was carried to the king, and had great influence at court. |
sighs one on this side of the pond, and circles with the restlessness of despair to some new perch on the gray oaks. then- that i never had been bor-r-r-r-n! echoes another on the farther side with tremulous sincerity, and- bor-r-r-r-n! |
and betwixt the very thighs of women, cornelius gallus the proctor; tigillinus, captain of the watch at rome; ludovico, son of guido di gonzaga, marquis of mantua; and (of worse example) speusippus, a platonic philosopher, and one of our popes. |
the hard are the reverse; the shaggy and rugged and gritty, or those who have an admixture of earth or dung in their composition, have the impressions indistinct, as also the hard, for there is no depth in them; and the soft too are indistinct, for their |
court of appeal on points of right, or to flee to athens as a harbour of refuge from the hand of the oppressor. (eighteen) |
(eight) treason. both at athens and in the laws the penalty for treason was death (telfy), and refusal of burial in the country (telfy). |
i wish them also to dedicate a statue of my mother to ceres at nemea, or wherever else they think fit. |
exclude degrees and also the mixed modes and double aspects under which truth is so often presented to us. to assert that man is man is unmeaning; to say that he is free or necessary and cannot be both is a half truth only. |
had it been some mortal man who had sent me some prophet or priest who divines from sacrifice-i should have deemed him false and have given him no heed; but now one have heard the goddess and seen her face to face, therefore i will go and her saying shall |
eight. it is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; |
concerning those that are more or less subject to envy: first, persons of eminent virtue, when they are advanced, are less envied. for their fortune seemeth, but due unto them; and no man envieth the payment of a debt, but rewards and liberality rather. |
but perhaps, as plato would say, 'this is part of another subject' (tim.); though we may also defend our digression by his example (theaet.). |
"when the chaste arria gave to poetus the reeking sword she had drawn from her breast, 'if you believe me,' she said, 'paetus, the wound i have made hurts not, but 'tis that which thou wilt make that hurts me.'"---martial, i. fourteen. |
liked you to stay here as a station hand, but i must do as my master tells me, or he will scold me later on, and a scolding from one's master is a very serious thing. |
if sin which is her own natural and inherent evil cannot destroy the soul, hardly will anything else destroy her. but the soul which cannot be destroyed either by internal or external evil must be immortal and everlasting. |
on which account he said to a man, who had his shoes put on by his servant, "you are not thoroughly happy, unless he also wipes your nose for you; and he will do this, if you are crippled in your hands." |
in regard to his doing of business, he is anxious that it should be reverently careful. in regard to what he doubts about, he is anxious to question others. when he is angry, he thinks of the difficulties (his anger may involve him in). |
precipice, and so wholly cut off from the rest of the work, that by the first six words, i found myself flying into the other world, and thence discovered the vale whence i came so deep and low, that i have never had since the heart to descend into it any |
athenian: he sings well and dances well; now must we add that he sings what is good and dances what is good? |
meanwhile, when day came and the syracusans and allies found that the athenians were gone, most of them accused gylippus of having let them escape on purpose, and hastily pursuing by the road which they had no difficulty in finding that they had taken, |
clearchus accordingly resolved to bring to an end these feelings of mistrust, before they led to war. consequently, he sent a messenger to the persian to say that he desired an interview with him; to which the other readily consented. |
i see different kinds of vice in the vast number of different minds, and am called in to heal the whole body of citizens: let us seek for the remedies proper for each disease. |
and therefore the romans when they had subdued many nations, to make their government digestible, were wont to take away that grievance, as much as they thought necessary, by giving sometimes to whole nations, and sometimes to principall men of every |
why is your silver plate not set down anyhow or at random, but skilfully disposed in regular order, with a superintendent to preside over the carving of the viands?" add to this, if you like, the questions "why do you own property beyond the seas? |
safety. thus the wall was raised to a great height, and the mound opposite made no less rapid progress. the plataeans also thought of another expedient; they pulled out part of the wall upon which the mound abutted, and carried the earth into the city. |
one hundred thirty thirty six. again, there are two orders of beauty: in the one, loveliness predominates; in the other, dignity; of these, we ought to regard loveliness as the attribute of woman, and dignity as the attribute of man. |
at marathon they encamped at another temple of heracles, namely that which is in kynosarges. |
for not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. the reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things. |
two. such is the report made by the persians; but as for the egyptians they claim cambyses as one of themselves, saying that he was born of this very daughter of apries; for they say that cyrus was he who sent to amasis for his daughter, and not cambyses. |
the master being very ill, tsze-lu wished the disciples to act as ministers to him. two. during a remission of his illness, he said, 'long has the conduct of yu been deceitful! |
experience. in other words, it would mean that mere representations exist before they can be found in our faculty of representation. |
or poetic fiction; but, beginning it late, ended his life before his work; and the reader's regret for the unfinished part is the greater, as the satisfaction he takes in that which is complete is extraordinary. |
thus, as the result of my counsels and my vigilance, their weapons slipped suddenly from the hands of the most desperate traitors--dropped to the ground of their own accord! what achievement in war, then, was ever so great? |
"these absurdities follow, and it also follows that the contrary element, whether it is plurality or the unequal, i.e. the great and small, is the bad-itself. |
'harmodiuses'-- plutarch, on love, c.thirty four. -- is sufficiently known. i find it in virility already in some sort a little out of date, though not so much as in old age; |
manners. for the romans thought that no marriage, or rearing of children, nay, no feast or drinking-bout ought to be permitted according to everyone's appetite or fancy, without being examined and inquired into; being indeed of opinion, that a man's |
thirteen ton en te naumakhie : perhaps we should read ten en te naumakhin , "which took place in the sea-fight." |
but did you ever say to yourself, that good is evil, or evil good? even in sleep, did you ever imagine that odd was even? or did any man in his senses ever fancy that an ox was a horse, or that two are one? |
for example, to represent god as false or immoral, or, according to plato, as deluding men with appearances or as the author of evil; or again, to affirm with protagoras that 'knowledge is sensation,' or that 'being is becoming,' or with thrasymachus |
it is remarkable concerning the operations of the mind, that, though most intimately present to us, yet, whenever they become the object of reflexion, they seem involved in obscurity; nor can the eye readily find those lines and boundaries, which |
though truth and falsehood belong, in propriety of speech, only to propositions: yet ideas are oftentimes termed true or false (as what words are there that are not used with great latitude, and with some deviation from their strict and proper |
now the first of the hellenes who captured a ship of the enemy was an athenian, lycomedes the son of aischraios, and he received the prize for valour. |
heaven-banished host, left desart utmost hell many a dark league, reduced in careful watch round their metropolis; and now expecting each hour their great adventurer, from the search of foreign worlds: he through the midst unmarked, in show plebeian angel |
but pelopidas, having sufficiently tried their bravery at tegyrae, where they had fought alone, and around his own person, never afterward divided them, but keeping them entire, and as one man, gave them the first duty in the greatest battles. |
they sent, therefore, in haste to pausanias, demanding relief, as not being able alone to sustain the great numbers of the barbarians. |
i see often that we have theories of life set before us which neither the proposer nor those who hear him have any hope, nor, which is more, any inclination to follow. |
these eight did consist the then kingdome of god. |
reality and the evidence of sensation establish the certainty of the senses; for the impressions of sight and hearing are just as real, just as evident, as pain. |
neanthes of cyzicus, who also wrote about the pythagoreans, says, that when meton was dead, the seeds of tyrannical power began to appear; and that then empedocles persuaded the agrigentines to desist from their factious disputes, and to establish |
much memory, or memory of many things, is called experience. |
in the next place, the consistency of the coats of which the arterial vein and the great artery are composed, sufficiently shows that the blood is impelled against them with more force than against the veins. |
he was likewise the first who attempted to argue on both sides of a question, and who also made the method of discussion, which had been handed down by plato, by means of question and answer, more contentious than before. |
and passed inward where the sea is always calm, there is a large piece of masonry, and upon this the tomb of themistocles, in the shape of an altar; and plato the comedian confirms this, he believes, in these verses,-- |
two hundred twenty nine. two of these three hundred, it is said, namely eurystos and aristodemos, who, if they had made agreement with one another, might either have come safe home to sparta together (seeing that they had been dismissed from the camp by |
sake. but i cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs, of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. |
the first; nay, even hitherto by endurance and valour alone have we held out against them, hard pressed as we are: and now unless ye shall send some others to take up our position in succession to us, know that we shall leave the position in which we now |
while on service at each station, their attention shall be directed to the following points:--in the first place, they shall see that the country is well protected against enemies; they shall trench and dig wherever this is required, and, as far as they |
accordingly we find that rhythm is not the same in an oration as in a poem; and that that which is pronounced to be rhythmical in an oration is not always effected by a strict attention to the rules of rhythm; but sometimes either by neatness, or by the |
all these, with some companies of soldiers, filled the theatre at neapolis. |
a causal proposition is correct, when it begins with a true premiss, and ends in a consequence which necessarily follows from it, but yet does not have its premiss reciprocally consequent upon its conclusion; as for instance, "because it is day, it is |
increases it and makes it blaze higher. it is important to know how great and how fresh its strength may be, and whether it can be driven forcibly back and suppressed, or whether we must give way to it until its first storm blow over, lest it sweep away |
he would think he deserved any misfortune were he otherwise than miserable! therefore, you see, the evil is in opinion, not in nature. how is it when some things do of themselves prevent your grieving at them? |
if the one possesses right opinions and the others do not. well then, can the ten conquer in this matter? how is it possible? if we were placed in the scales, must not the heavier draw down the scale in which it is. |
other connexions that require proof only differ in that the 'middle' of the one is subordinate to the 'middle' of the other. for example: why does the nile rise towards the end of the month? because towards its close the month is more stormy. |
as it is seen in augustus caesar, cosmus duke of florence, gaston de foix, and others. on the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business. |
then and there. meanwhile earth-encircling neptune lord of the earthquake cheered on the argives, for he had come up out of the sea and had assumed the form and voice of calchas. |
all life had i renounced, so i dreamed. night-watchman and grave-guardian had i become, aloft, in the lone mountain-fortress of death. |
but since it was not possible for them to exist in sensibles either, it is plain that they either do not exist at all or exist in a special sense and therefore do not 'exist' without qualification. for 'exist' has many senses. |
nor were ethical considerations wanting, partly derived from the necessity of punishing the greater sort of criminals, whom no avenging power of this world could reach. |
one impugns his father's will, when he would have done better to deserve it; another appears as the accuser of his mother; a third comes to inform against a man for committing the very crime of which he himself is yet more notoriously guilty. |
it was an extraordinary piece, and therefore aratus was fain to spare it for the workmanship, and yet, instigated by the hatred he bore the tyrants, commanded it to be taken down. |
such obligations are annulled in most cases by the praetor's edict in equity, g in some cases by the laws. |
polyneices. 'tis shame to live in exile, and shall i the elder bear a younger brother's flouts? |
"is all that thy learning nothing, unless another knows that thou knowest?"--persius, sat., i. twenty three. |
"for who studies to speak accurately, that does not at the same time wish to perplex his auditory?"--idem, ep., seventy five. |
which was in number as much as four myriads seventy two of men), these, when the fighting began, being well aware what the issue of the battle would be, he led carefully, seventy three having first given orders that all should go by the way which he |
this duty is not, we should feel, to fill the granaries of individuals and thereby to grant them a dispensation from labour, but to keep plenty so within their reach that labour is always necessary and never useless for its acquisition. |
i thought publius clodius a mischievous, wicked, lustful, impious, audacious, criminal citizen. you, on the other hand, called him religious, temperate, innocent, modest; a citizen to be preserved and desired. |
only then does he feel the beloved one fully in his possession, when she no longer deceives herself about him, when she loves him just as much for the sake of his devilry and concealed insatiability, as for his goodness, patience, and spirituality. |
this endeavour, when it is toward something which causes it, is called appetite, or desire; the later, being the generall name; and the other, oftentimes restrayned to signifie the desire of food, namely hunger and thirst. |
quibus vellem satis cognita esset nostra sententia. non enim sumus ii, quorum vagetur animus errore nec habeat umquam, quid sequatur. quae enim esset ista mens vel quae vita potius non modo disputandi, sed etiam vivendi ratione sublata? |
and the epigram cannot possibly be by homer, for he lived many years, as it is said, before midas. |
but when we say, 'he sings and dances well,' we mean that he sings and dances what is good. |
i admit that, but it is on the ground that he is a wise, conscientious, dignified relater of facts, not that he was pleading causes before tribunals, but that he was relating wars in a history. |
one man would avoid meeting him; another after returning his salutation would instantly turn away; many after beginning a conversation would instantly break it off, while sejanus's friends would stand their ground and laugh at him. |
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