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"what happeneth? what are they about?" he asked himself, and stole up to the entrance, that he might be able unobserved to see his guests. but wonder upon wonder! what was he then obliged to behold with his own eyes! |
he acknowledges under certain circumstances, which made him hesitate at first, that there are other equally privileged ones; as soon as he has settled this question of rank, he moves among those equals and equally privileged ones with the same assurance, |
after the third potion, he asked him again how he did: "why, i find myself swollen and puffed up," said he, "as if i had a dropsy."--"that is very well," said the physician. |
despotic power is absurd, except only where nature has framed the one party for dominion, the other for subordination; and therefore no one ought to assume it over all in general, but those only which are the proper objects thereof: thus no one should |
but his published work on the subject owed nothing to her, he tells us, in its doctrines. |
gaul is roused at the name of the great dictator, and i distrust no less the nations of asia, because of the renown of such a grandfather as drusus. |
by the procurement chiefly of nicias, they paid him very special attentions. and it was commonly said in greece, that the war was begun by pericles, and that nicias made an end of it, and the peace was generally called the peace of nicias. |
two) consequences from the motion, and quantity of bodies in speciall |
but we shall seek out things like them in an affair of either greater, or less, or equal importance, from which our description will be proved. |
but the coat of mail stoutly repelled it, and cyrus was not wounded; yet the stroke falling heavy upon him, he reeled under it. then artagerses turning his horse, cyrus threw his weapon, and sent the head of it through his neck near the shoulder bone. |
thus, it will come to the same thing, if i say "the highest good is a mind which despises the accidents of fortune, and takes pleasure in virtue": or, "it is an unconquerable strength of mind, knowing the world well, gentle in its dealings, showing great |
needs no purge. and in like manner no one can be a true statesman, whether he aims at the happiness of the individual or state, who looks only, or first of all, to external warfare; nor will he ever be a sound legislator who orders peace for the sake of |
advised that they should do so: and when they were divided and the worse opinion was like to prevail, then, since he who had been chosen by lot ninety eight to be polemarch of the athenians had a vote in addition to the ten (for in old times the athenians |
yet the true office of a poet or writer of fiction is not merely to give amusement, or to be the expression of the feelings of mankind, good or bad, or even to increase our knowledge of human nature. |
in fine, when such terror had seized upon the romans, that, if they did but see a little rope or a piece of wood from the wall, instantly crying out, that there it was again, archimedes was about to let fly some engine at them, they turned their backs and |
it has often been charged with inconsistency and fancifulness, and yet has had an elevating effect on human nature, and has exercised a wonderful charm and interest over a few spirits who have been lost in the thought of it. |
not long after the first foundation of the city, they opened a sanctuary of refuge for all fugitives, which they called the temple of the god asylaeus, where they received and protected all, delivering none back, neither the servant to his master, the |
in the state of living creatures, their identity depends not on a mass of the same particles, but on something else. |
now, it has been shown that the positing of one thing-be it one term or one premiss-never involves a necessary consequent: two premisses constitute the first and smallest foundation for drawing a conclusion at all and therefore a fortiori for the |
himself also by cato's means not long after should be forced to give up his power. |
able to mould the intractable latin to the grace and ease of the greek platonic dialogue. |
this mistake misleads us, both in the choice of the good we aim at, and very often in the means to it, when it is a remote good. |
after dismissing his slaves he threw some of the food out of the window, that he might appear to have eaten it: then he took no supper, making the excuse that he had already had enough food in his chamber. |
for whenever they cast lots for any playful purpose, or threw dice, antony was still the loser; and repeatedly, when they fought game-cocks or quails, caesar's had the victory. |
it would be melancholy, were we forced to admit that this distinctive and almost unlimited faculty is the source of all human misfortunes; that it is this which, in time, draws man out of his original state, in which he would have spent his days |
i have restricted my use of full capitalization to those places where hobbes used it, except in the chapter headings, which one have fully capitalized, where hobbes used a mixture of full capitalization and italics. |
according to this view we have all a will and an intelligence: the difference only is that some put more into them, and some put less. but such a separation of the general form from its contents is a piece of pure mythology. |
hearest thou not how spirit hath here become a verbal game? loathsome verbal swill doth it vomit forth!-and they make newspapers also out of this verbal swill. |
state, to devote more time to leisure and to literature. thus, just as though you were making a perilous voyage, you may from time to time put into harbour, and set yourself free from public business without waiting for it to do so. |
his only vexation arose from his fear lest this ill counsel, by supplying opportunities to the diseased military ambition of his subordinate, should damage the public cause. |
they take from me: but do i yet touch their soul? there is a gap 'twixt giving and receiving; and the smallest gap hath finally to be bridged over. |
them. thus they win great numbers of each nation to receive with joy the tidings brought from heaven: at length their ministry performed, and race well run, their doctrine and their story written left, they die; but in their room, as they forewarn, wolves |
pi i-hsun, the author of the sun tzu hsu lu , backs this up with a quotation from the wu yueh ch'un ch'iu: "the king of wu summoned sun tzu, and asked him questions about the art of war. |
this other story that follows is also of the same category. |
in autumn god gives us two boons--one the joy of dionysus not to be laid up--the other to be laid up. |
our well-being is nothing but the not being ill. which is the reason why that sect of philosophers, which sets the greatest value upon pleasure, has yet fixed it chiefly in unconsciousness of pain. |
the same conditions and faculties you have been pleased to frequent and receive with much more honour and courtesy than they deserve, i would put together (but without alteration or change) in one solid body, that may peradventure continue some years, or |
measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut-crackers: thus did my dream find the world:- |
and afterwards when they demanded a king, after the manner of the nations; yet it was not with a design to depart from the worship of god their king; but despairing of the justice of the sons of samuel, they would have a king to judg them in civill |
habits, especially such as are begun very early, come at last to produce actions in us, which often escape our observation. how frequently do we, in a day, cover our eyes with our eyelids, without perceiving that we are at all in the dark! |
let him not teach him so much the narrative parts of history as to judge them; the reading of them, in my opinion, is a thing that of all others we apply ourselves unto with the most differing measure. |
it is therefore incontestable that love, as well as all other passions, must have acquired in society that glowing impetuosity, which makes it so often fatal to mankind. |
socrates: then you must prove that the rhetorician is not a fool, and that rhetoric is an art and not a flattery-and so you will have refuted me; but if you leave me unrefuted, why, the rhetoricians who do what they think best in states, and the tyrants, |
do neverthelesse live in society, without any coercive power |
you may often perceive both aristocracies and oligarchies continuing firm, not from the stability of their forms of government, but from the wise conduct of the magistrates, both towards those who have a part in the management of public affairs, and those |
and whilst he thus spake he kissed with o'erflowing eyes the hands of him with whom he spake, and behaved altogether like one to whom a precious gift and jewel hath fallen unawares from heaven. the kine, however, gazed at it all and wondered. |
so, whoever shall presuppose a packthread equally strong throughout, it is utterly impossible it should break; for, where will you have the breaking to begin? and that it should break altogether is not in nature. |
one hundred thirty eight. we do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse--and forget it immediately. |
when his ideas begin to clear up, he is unwilling to admit that rhetoric can be wholly separated from justice and injustice, and this lingering sentiment of morality, or regard for public opinion, enables socrates to detect him in a contradiction. |
not to lay aside my former study of oratory, and yet to employ myself at the same time in this greater and more fruitful art; for i have always thought that to be able to speak copiously and elegantly on the most important questions was the most perfect |
wines, whilst they confine their patients to syrups and sops. "i know not," said the courtezan lais, "what they may talk of books, wisdom, and philosophy; but these men knock as often at my door as any others." |
one hundred four lit. "the good things." |
won of clear water two parts out of eight, and four of fire; and so white bones were formed. |
iphigenia ordered herself to be conveyed to aulis, to be sacrificed, that her blood might be the cause of spilling that of her enemies. |
plato, who professes to have embraced this belief from pindar and the ancient poets, that we are to undergo infinite vicissitudes of mutation, for which the soul is prepared, having neither punishment nor reward in the other world but what is temporal, as |
what if there were to rise up the remembrance of those who fell in rome's citadel and at her altar by the hands of these same barbarians! |
great is the strength, invincible the might of zeno, skilled to argue on both sides of any question, th' universal critic; and of melissus too. they rose superior to prejudice in general; only yielding to very few. |
only the slave of the master, but nothing else but that. |
this other lesson is too high and too difficult: 'tis for men of the first form of knowledge purely to insist upon the thing, to consider and judge it; it appertains to one sole socrates to meet death with an ordinary countenance, to grow acquainted with |
when i am a few miles from home, whatever relates to it touches me more nearly than when i am two hundred leagues distant; though even at that distance the reflecting on any thing in the neighbourhood of my friends or family naturally produces an idea of |
these considerations made both sides disposed for an accommodation; the lacedaemonians being probably the most eager, as they ardently desired to recover the men taken upon the island, the spartans among whom belonged to the first families and were |
there sleeps, during which time the whale never stirs; but so soon as ever it goes out he immediately follows it; and if by accident he loses the sight of his little guide, he goes wandering here and there, and strikes his sides against the rocks like a |
he poised his spear as he spoke and hurled it. |
the knowledge aimed at is of what is best for man and of the conditions of its realisation. |
one hundred sixty five. the story which here follows is also reported by those who dwell in sicily, namely that, even though he was to be under the command of the lacedemonians, gelon would have come to the assistance of the hellenes, but that terillos, |
all that has been said of burying is not worth our regard with respect to ourselves, though it is not to be neglected as to our friends, provided we are thoroughly aware that the dead are insensible. |
the authenticall interpretation of law is not that of writers |
there are many other things which they will have to consider, such as the effects of wars and diseases and any similar agencies, in order as far as this is possible to prevent the state from becoming either too large or too small. |
the articles of christian faith, necessary to salvation. |
next he visited the vast ruins of ancient thebes. there yet remained on the towering piles egyptian inscriptions, with a complete account of the city's past grandeur. |
greece. this i have been an eyewitness of, that in public confusions, men astonished at their fortune, have abandoned their own reason, superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes and menaces of the present mishaps, and in my time have |
never yet hath there been a superman. naked have i seen both of them, the greatest man and the smallest man:- |
three hundred seventy four dolore. et muller, heine; dolore: ut mss., bt.; dolore. ut ed. |
to them; for with him evils are not the less by reason of their continuance, nor the lighter for having been foreseen; and it is folly to ruminate on evils to come, or such as, perhaps, never may come: every evil is disagreeable enough when it does come; |
never dare to show themselves in it; and setting off from cnidos and the triopian headland, with two hundred galleys, which had been originally built with particular care by themistocles, for speed and rapid evolutions, and to which he now gave greater |
strength. the best recommendation, then, that a young man can have to popular esteem proceeds from self-restraint, filial affection, and devotion to kinsfolk. |
the seventeenth, no man is his own judge |
they were menaced from peloponnese, manned a hundred ships by embarking the citizens of athens, except the knights and pentacosiomedimni, and the resident aliens; and putting out to the isthmus, displayed their power, and made descents upon peloponnese |
the man is not a master, the slave is not a slave. similarly, if the attribute 'winged' be withdrawn from 'the bird', 'the wing' will no longer be relative; for if the so-called correlative is not winged, it follows that 'the wing' has no correlative. |
go not to men, but stay in the forest! go rather to the animals! why not be like me-a bear amongst bears, a bird amongst birds?" |
or what is the nature of that pleasure or happiness which never wearies by monotony? earthly pleasures and pains are short in proportion as they are keen; of any others which are both intense and lasting we have no experience, and can form no idea. |
the onely necessary article of christian faith, the (unum necessarium) onely article of faith, which the scripture maketh simply necessary to salvation, is this, that jesus is the christ. |
such favours in kind; we must, therefore, exercise caution in declining favours, lest we should have the appearance of despising those who bestow them, or of being, from avaricious motives, unwilling to requite them, and so give ground for offence by the |
he used to say, that those who utter virtuous sentiments but do not do them, are no better than harps, for that a harp has no hearing or feeling. |
from this point of view a man fairly argues that in athens to love and to be loved is held to be a very honourable thing. |
now it is virtue which makes the moral choice right, but whatever is naturally required to carry out that choice comes under the province not of virtue but of a different faculty. we must halt, as it were, awhile, and speak more clearly on these points. |
nicocles fled away secretly out of the city by means of certain underground passages, and the soldiers, helping the sicyonians to quench the fire, plundered the house. |
when things were ripe for action, he gave order to thirty of the principal men of sparta to be ready armed at the market-place by break of day, to the end that he might strike a terror into the opposite party. |
plato said very well, that physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure, since our health depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promises. |
thrice did he drag it round the tomb of the son of menoetius, and then went back into his tent, leaving the body on the ground full length and with its face downwards. |
urged them behind: headlong themselves they threw down from the verge of heaven; eternal wrath burnt after them to the bottomless pit. |
i think i do my son less harm, o chremes, as long as i myself am miserable. |
full moon should lose her light, and show such various colors, was not easy to be comprehended; they concluded it to be ominous, and a divine intimation of some heavy calamities. |
swinging fits of the stone. give me health, in god's name! |
pittheus; though others write that sinnis, not sciron, was their son, and that to his honor, and not to the other's, these games were ordained by theseus. |
neighboring hills, where the horse might not be able to hem him in. |
two hundred ninety three superioribus ... ex quibus walker, bt. two, ed.; ex superioribus ... quibus mss., bt. one; superioribus ... quibus , heine. |
and are we to suppose, i said, that the philosopher sets any value on other pleasures in comparison with the pleasure of knowing the truth, and in that pursuit abiding, ever learning, not so far indeed from the heaven of pleasure? |
after listening to this appeal, seuthes called down curses on him, whose fault it was, that the debt had not long ago been paid, and, if the general suspicion was correct, this was heracleides. |
thus i could avoid all trade and barter, so far as my food was concerned, and having a shelter already, it would only remain to get clothing and fuel. |
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