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but, if we inquire into our own thoughts, and consider what has been premised, we may perhaps entertain a low opinion of those high flights and abstractions, and look on all inquiries, about numbers only as so many difficiles nugae, so far as they are not |
if opining is distinct from perceiving, to be capable of opining and to be capable of perceiving must be distinct, and so with all the other forms of living above enumerated. |
on this, as he passed, he gave ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path. |
value in them, not what they bring to us reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free resolved to bring nothing to it but expectation and patience rest satisfied, without desire of prolongation of life or name restoring what has been lent us, wit |
and he had so high an opinion of himself, that once, when a man asked him, "to whom shall i entrust my son?" he said, "to me, for if i thought that there was any one better than myself, i would have gone to him to teach me philosophy." |
the office of pontifex maximus, or chief priest, was to declare and interpret the divine law, or, rather, to preside over sacred rites; he not only prescribed rules for public ceremony, but regulated the sacrifices of private persons, not suffering them |
the year when caius asinius and caius antistius were consuls was the ninth of tiberius's reign, a period of tranquillity for the state and prosperity for his own house, for he counted germanicus's death a happy incident. |
austere and inaccessible; whereas, much more aptly than in voluptuousness, they ennoble, sharpen, and heighten the perfect and divine pleasure they procure us. |
for if this is so, we say it is possible that it should belong to none or not to all. let a be possible for all b, and let b belong to all one hundred. |
for more than a thousand years not a single writer of first-rate, or even of second-rate, reputation has a place in the innumerable rolls of greek literature. |
move only if there is a real advantage to be gained. |
on the origin and foundation of the inequality of mankind |
if the best men at the ships were being chosen to go on an ambush-and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of |
denique comrabia ad veneris, partusque ferarum esse animas prsto, deridiculum esse videtur; et spectare immortales mortalia membra innumero numero, certareque prproperanter inter se, qu prima potissimaq insinueter. |
because (replied socrates) i think that you, who have this power, do hesitate to devote yourself to matters which, as being a citizen, if for no other reason, you are bound to take part in. (four) |
which then is his soveraigns sentence; otherwise it is his own, and an unjust one. |
the number of these stages amounts in all to one hundred and eleven. |
safety. and he did escape; but messene was rescued. |
"the very first of human life must spring from woman's breast, your first small words are taught you from her lips, your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, when men have shrunk from the ignoble |
human actions, when with their various ends, objects, manners, and circumstances, they are framed into distinct complex ideas, are, as has been shown, so many mixed modes, a great part whereof have names annexed to them. |
proof.--this proposition is evident from the last; it is understood more clearly from the preceding note. |
"so as when they are come to pass, they may then by some interpretation be recalled to conjecture" --cicero, de divin., ii. thirty one. |
for every man is obliged to doe his best endeavour, to informe himself of all written lawes, that may concerne his own future actions. |
it was then that brasidas, seeing the athenian force in motion and his opportunity come, said to the men with him and the rest: "those fellows will never stand before us, one can see that by the way their spears and heads are going. |
over the plain, their booty; scarce with life the shepherds fly, but call in aid, which makes a bloody fray; with cruel tournament the squadrons join; where cattle pastured late, now scattered lies with carcasses and arms the ensanguined field, deserted: |
and yet in that very class there may arise good men, and worthy of all admiration they are, for where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing, and greatly to be praised, and few there are who attain to this. |
as to the body which, before it was burnt, lay bare in the forum at antioch, its destined place of burial, it is doubtful whether it exhibited the marks of poisoning. |
had reached the summit of the mountain. in this part of the mountain there were, as i have before shown, a thousand hoplites of the phokians keeping guard, to protect their own country and to keep the path: for while the pass below was guarded by those |
notwithstanding, he frequently incurred alexander's displeasure, and put himself into some danger, through hephaestion. the quarters that had been taken up for eumenes, hephaestion assigned to euius, the flute-player. |
m. and do you think a wise man subject to these? |
athenian: as there are no young men present, and the legislator has given old men free licence, there will be no impropriety in our discussing these very matters now that we are alone. |
in small matters the five commanders shall decide: in greater matters up to three minae, the five commanders and the twelve guards. like all other judges, except those who have the final decision, they shall be liable to give an account. |
for thee, whose coldness inflameth, whose hatred misleadeth, whose flight enchaineth, whose mockery-pleadeth: |
and if any man should do wrong, merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. |
(one) lit. "marched and fought," as did the forlorn hope under sir one hundred. wilson making its way from abu klea to the nile in jan. one thousand eight hundred eighty five. |
ever to destruction alone, the land which ye possess being parted off from the rest and lying between the armies which are contending together. |
thus did they converse. meanwhile eurynome and the nurse took torches and made the bed ready with soft coverlets; as soon as they had laid them, the nurse went back into the house to go to her rest, leaving the bed chamber woman eurynome to show ulysses |
than the kings who left behind the pyramids. |
beyond their sex. towards dusk, the oligarchs in full rout, fearing that the victorious commons might assault and carry the arsenal and put them to the sword, fired the houses round the marketplace and the lodging-houses, in order to bar their advance; |
much, for instance, is to be learnt by a careful study of language by those who combine sound linguistic knowledge with psychological training. |
lonely sea-girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends. |
eleven. either fate, (and that either an absolute necessity, and unavoidable decree; or a placable and flexible providence) or all is a mere casual confusion, void of all order and government. |
and with respect to judgments, their certainty depends on our referring them to some previous notion, of itself certain, in virtue of which we affirm such and such a judgment; for instance, "how do we know whether this thing is a man?" |
return his affection (three. xxxiii.). now these endeavours are constrained by hatred towards the object of love (three. xiii. coroll. and three. xxiii.); wherefore the lover (three. xi. |
and this is the moral of placing the temple of the graces () in the public streets; to impress the notion that there may be requital, this being peculiar to seventeen because a man ought to requite with a good turn the man who has done him a favour and |
at mitylene also, a dispute, which arose concerning a right of heritage, was the beginning of great evils, and a war with the athenians, in which paches took their city, for timophanes, a man of fortune, leaving two daughters, doxander, who was |
weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all gods and backworlds. |
but hippocrates, sending a report to syracuse, that marcellus had put all the adult population to the sword, and then coming upon the syracusans, who had risen in tumult upon that false report, made himself master of the city. |
look upon themselves as a third person only, a stranger lower himself to the meanness of defending his innocence much difference betwixt us and ourselves no alcohol the night on which a man intends to get children no excellent soul is exempt from a |
they do not consider that he speaks here, indeed, ambiguously; but in many other places both he and metrodorus explain themselves as clearly as you have done. |
i have visited two such bottomless ponds in one walk in this neighborhood. many have believed that walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe. |
"of the productions or processes one part is called thinking and the other making,-that which proceeds from the starting-point and the form is thinking, and that which proceeds from the final step of the thinking is making. |
and so, glaucon, i said, we have at last arrived at the hymn of dialectic. |
sescentos exsules, qui locupletissimi fuerant eius civitatis, restituit remque publicam adventu suo liberavit. |
this seems to him on the one hand such bad taste and so self-disrespectful, and on the other hand so grotesquely unreasonable, that he would like to consider vanity an exception, and is doubtful about it in most cases when it is spoken of. |
to the conclusion that there was nothing on a great scale, either in war or in other matters. |
most violent; for experience shows us, that such emotions are often seen under rude and slovenly clothes, and that a hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it. |
natural objects, and also that it belongs to the student of nature to study even soul in a certain sense, i.e. so much of it as is not independent of matter. |
hearts, that the very thought should be hateful to them, with what mask soever they may be disguised. |
first syllogism the converse was assumed, viz. that b belongs to one hundred. |
that may be the case, or it may be otherwise; and if in truth the ass did not dance that evening, there nevertheless happened then greater and rarer wonders than the dancing of an ass would have been. |
did we but see as much of the world as we do not see, we should perceive, we may well believe, a perpetual multiplication and vicissitude of forms. |
the acarnanians and amphilochians, after the departure of demosthenes and the athenians, granted the ambraciots and peloponnesians who had taken refuge with salynthius and the agraeans a free retreat from oeniadae, to which place they had removed from the |
as from his wit and native subtlety proceeding; which, in other beasts observed, doubt might beget of diabolick power active within, beyond the sense of brute. thus he resolved, but first from inward grief his bursting passion into plaints thus poured. |
whosoever shall so know himself, let him boldly speak it out. |
like a cry and an huzza will i traverse wide seas, till i find the happy isles where my friends sojourn;- |
in fact, if the voice of nature is the best counsellor to which a father can listen in the discharge of his duty, for the magistrate it is a false guide, which continually prevents him from performing his, and leads him on sooner or later to the ruin of |
fifty three. this is the number of stages with resting-places, as one goes up from sardis to susa: and if the royal road has been rightly measured as regards leagues, and if the league forty five is equal to thirty furlongs, forty six (as undoubtedly it |
finally, the pages of the autobiography ring with the dithyrambic praise of his "almost infallible counsellor." |
they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity. besides, they are like strangers; more admired, and less favored. |
but the most luxuriously housed has little to boast of in this respect, nor need we trouble ourselves to speculate how the human race may be at last destroyed. it would be easy to cut their threads any time with a little sharper blast from the north. |
i leave no stone unturned, to do without it, rather than employ the bounty of another in any light or important occasion or necessity whatever. |
two hundred forty six. he who destroys life, who speaks untruth, who in this world takes what is not given him, who goes to another man's wife; |
already come to pass. then secondly; fix thy mind upon the thing itself; look into it, and remembering thyself, that thou art bound nevertheless to be a good man, and what it is that thy nature requireth of thee as thou art a man, be not diverted from |
furthermore, it is plain that it is the function of one and the same art to discern the real and the apparent means of persuasion, just as it is the function of dialectic to discern the real and the apparent syllogism. |
to him give entertainment and show yourselves serviceable, for ye will not in the end repent of so doing." |
'tis a custom of our justice to condemn some for a warning to others. to condemn them for having done amiss, were folly, as plato says, |
to this therycion returned no answer but as soon as he had an opportunity of leaving cleomenes's company, went aside on the sea-shore, and ran himself through. |
quite true, if there is no evil except pain. but philosophers cb of the highest authority assure us that pain is not only not the supreme evil but no evil at all. |
this humour is far differing from that of the younger scipio, who sharply reprehended his soldiers for having planted caltrops under water, in a ditch by which those of the town he held besieged might sally out upon him; saying, that those who assaulted |
rome had then many sharp contests going on, and her youth betaking themselves early to the wars, learned betimes the art of commanding; and flamininus, having passed through the rudiments of soldiery, received his first charge in the war against hannibal, |
conducted in the same manner; let them be interpreters for life, and when any one dies let the four tribes select another from the tribe of the deceased. |
but his purpose was not for long; agenor saw him haling the body away, and smote him in the side with his bronze-shod spear-for as he stooped his side was left unprotected by his shield-and thus he perished. |
they have gone back a little, the one is overcome with shame and wonder, and his whole soul is bathed in perspiration; the other, when the pain is over which the bridle and the fall had given him, having with difficulty taken breath, is full of wrath and |
the desire which caesar had to take him alive, made him hasten thither; and upon the intelligence that he had dispatched himself, he was much discomposed, for what reason is not so well agreed. |
what good i do, in the common sense of that word, must be aside from my main path, and for the most part wholly unintended. |
as to the appropriate words, selecting those which are most suitable; and when indulging in metaphor, studying to preserve a proper resemblance, and to be modest in our use of foreign terms. |
the crowd plays the tyrant, when it is not in fear; hence we need not wonder that the prophets, who consulted the good, not of a few, but of all, so strenuously commended humility, repentance, and reverence. |
the other and better remedy is to plant colonies in one or two of those places which form as it were the keys of the land, for it is necessary either to do this or to maintain a large force of armed men. |
honor and trust under his general. after the wars with the cimbri and teutones, he was sent into spain, having the command of a thousand men under didius, the roman general, and wintered in the country of the celtiberians, in the city of castulo, where |
but if they have too much on their hands to let them come, at any rate let ajax son of telamon do so, and let teucer, the famous bowman, come with him." |
been preserved of events which were themselves the cause of chronological difficulties about things of later date; of the calamity itself, however, and of the fact of the capture, some faint rumors seem to have passed at the time into greece. |
this, i shall be told, may do for a single town; but what is to be done when the state includes several? is the sovereign authority to be divided? or is it to be concentrated in a single town to which all the rest are made subject? |
nam quod rediit, nobis nunc mirabile videtur, illis quidem temporibus aliter facere non potuit; itaque ista laus non est hominis, sed temporum. nullum enim vinculum ad astringendam fidem iure iurando maiores artius esse voluerunt. |
compliance or die upon your refusal, in such cases there is room for a question whether the actions are voluntary or involuntary. |
acamas vaunted loudly over him saying, "argive archers, braggarts that you are, toil and suffering shall not be for us only, but some of you too shall fall here as well as ourselves. |
actual sound requires for its occurrence (i, ii) two such bodies and (iii) a space between them; for it is it is impossible for one body only to generate a sound-there must be a body impinging and a body impinged upon; what sounds does so by striking |
there must, then, be something else that decides; i mean by this, desire or will. for whichever of two things the animal desires decisively, it will do, when it is present, and meets the passive object, in the way appropriate to the potency in question. |
and finally, to ordinary men, to the majority of the people, who exist for service and general utility, and are only so far entitled to exist, religion gives invaluable contentedness with their lot and condition, peace of heart, ennoblement of obedience, |
oh, stupidest of mortals, if it takes to standing still, it ceases to be the wheel of fortune.' |
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