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the soul of the world is framed on the analogy of the soul of man, and many traces of anthropomorphism blend with plato's highest flights of idealism. |
besides, however speciously they might disguise their usurpations, they knew that they were founded on precarious and false titles; so that, if others took from them by force what they themselves had gained by force, they would have no reason to complain. |
one of them makes their rule of justice the government of a class; another aims at wealth; another at freedom, or at freedom and power; and some who call themselves philosophers maintain that you should seek for all of them at once. |
for both, both he that is angry and that grieveth, have received a wound, and cowardly have as it were yielded themselves unto their affections. |
upon all his extremities, and began to approach his vital parts, the last thing he had in his memory was some of the verses of his battle of phaysalia, which he recited, dying with them in his mouth. |
consequently if the rules for trials which are now laid down some states-especially in well-governed states-were applied everywhere, such people would have nothing to say. |
further, if it were, it would have been in their power to stop themselves (i mean that if e.g. |
for even when the smaller fire is destroyed by the greater, it suffers this effect (they say) owing to its 'contrariety' since the great is contrary to the small. |
the existence of things of this kind is clear to all: but we wish to explain also the nature of each of the other two kinds and show that there are some things that are always unmoved and some things that are always in motion. |
and shall they be our guardians when there are others who, besides being their equals in experience and falling short of them in no particular of virtue, also know the very truth of each thing? |
in speaking of a tragedy as the same or different, the best test to take is the plot. identity exists where the complication and unravelling are the same. many poets tie the knot well, but unravel it ill. both arts, however, should always be mastered. |
in such speech, however, there is much sound of triumph. he who hath ears to hear, let him hear.- |
of it against the most superficial objections. such persons, if they can once get their creed taught from authority, naturally think that no good, and some harm, comes of its being allowed to be questioned. |
"it is well when to thy country and the people thou hast given a citizen, provided thou make fit for his country's service; useful to till the earth, useful in affairs of war and peace" --juvenal, sat., xiv. seventy. |
up to this time they had feared the peloponnesian fleet, owing to a number of petty losses and to the disaster in sicily; but they now ceased to mistrust themselves or any longer to think their enemies good for anything at sea. |
and what if thou through either lameness or some other impediment art not able to reach unto the top of the battlements alone, which with the help of another thou mayst; wilt thou therefore give it over, or go about it with less courage and alacrity, |
a man is said to be white because the visible surface of him is white, or to be scientific because his thinking faculty has been trained. the jar then will not be in itself and the wine will not be in itself. |
he imputed also the murder of clitus, which he committed in his wine, and the unwillingness of the macedonians to follow him against the indians, by which his enterprise and glory was left imperfect, to the wrath and vengeance of bacchus, the protector of |
when bile finds a means of discharge, it boils up and sends forth all sorts of tumours; but when imprisoned within, it generates many inflammatory diseases, above all when mingled with pure blood; since it then displaces the fibres which are scattered |
for the ego, as a simple representation, presents us with no manifold content; only in intuition, which is quite different from the representation ego, can it be given us, and by means of conjunction it is cogitated in one self-consciousness. |
thoughts. now therefore if thou shalt do as i shall say, thou wilt do well for thyself on the one hand, and also save me from destruction: for king cambyses is planning death for me, and this is reported to me so that i cannot doubt it. |
let us place the most just by the side of the most unjust, and when we see them we shall be able to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of him who leads a life of pure justice or pure injustice. the enquiry will then be completed. |
and he, as it is said, discarded all negative axioms, using none but affirmative ones; and of these he only approved of the simple ones, and rejected all that were not simple; saying that they were intricate and perplexing. |
will be prior to one and posterior to the other. |
is true even if the action entails loss, provided the loss is outweighed by the solid advantage. a speaker will urge action by pointing to such conditions, and discourage it by pointing to the opposite. |
in the case of a man, the opinion of his virtue is of the greatest weight. for opinion goes to this extent, that those men have virtue, not only who do really possess it, but those also who appear to possess it. |
eighty eight. the difference of the areas of the triangles formed by joining the centres of the circles described about the equilateral triangles constructed-(one) outwards; (two) inwards-on the sides of any triangle, is equal to the area of that triangle. |
that km is moved by anything on the ground that it is not evident which is the part that is moving it and which the part that is moved. |
and bade them not meddle with what was not their concern, but only take care that they and their arms were in readiness, and to use their swords like romans when their commander should think fit to employ them. |
preceptress, you cannot fail to be properly instructed. |
there was a rumour that sabrius flavus had held a secret consultation with the centurions, and had planned, not without seneca's knowledge, that when nero had been slain by piso's instrumentality, piso also was to be murdered, and the empire handed over |
suppose, however, that socrates undergoes an alteration specifically the same but at one time and again at another: in this case if it is possible for that which ceased to be again to come into being and remain numerically the same, then this motion too |
command of alcidas, but with brasidas also on board as his adviser; and dropping anchor at sybota, a harbour on the mainland, at daybreak made sail for corcyra. |
ninety eight. inscribe in a given circle a polygon all whose sides pass through given points. |
plato himself seems to waver between two opposite views-when, as in the third book, he insists that youth should be brought up amid wholesome imagery; and again in book ten, when he banishes the poets from his republic. |
would not he who is fitted to be a guardian, besides the spirited nature, need to have the qualities of a philosopher? |
who is the shepherd into whose throat the serpent thus crawled? who is the man into whose throat all the heaviest and blackest will thus crawl? |
such a type of man is even proud of not being made for sympathy; the hero of the saga therefore adds warningly: "he who has not a hard heart when young, will never have one." |
nor again will the infinite traverse the infinite in a finite time. otherwise it would also traverse the finite, for the infinite includes the finite. we can further prove this in the same way by taking the time as our starting-point. |
"one might raise the question, why woman does not differ from man in species, when female and male are contrary and their difference is a contrariety; and why a female and a male animal are not different in species, though this difference belongs to |
judges were debating about the sentence, he went to his house, where hastily trimming his hair and putting on a clean gown, as already acquitted, he was setting off again to go to the forum; but at his hall door meeting crassus, who told him that he was |
but it is at any rate not difficult to see that place cannot be either of them. the form and the matter are not separate from the thing, whereas the place can be separated. |
he replied:-in the egyptian delta, at the head of which the river nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of sais, and the great city of the district is also called sais, and is the city from which king amasis came. |
might have been expected from his time of life, thus to venture out against an army of seventy thousand men, with no more than five thousand foot and a thousand horse; and, when he should have kept those forces to defend the city, choosing rather to |
three. (the tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. |
but eloquence cannot be obtained for nothing; private affairs are neglected, in order that a man may devote himself to the business of others. some support life by the profession of arms, some by cultivating land. |
despoiled of the empire, and could no longer give any reward, as the price of a lie. utrumque, qui interfuere, nunc quoque memorant, postquam nullum mendacio pretium . |
instead of the vow of chastity, marriage now ranks as the ethical relation; and, therefore, as the highest on this side of humanity stands the family. |
a further objection to the theory of empedocles is that it makes even growth impossible, unless it be increase by addition. for his fire increases by fire: 'and earth increases its own frame and ether increases ether." |
here too may be a presentiment that in the medicine of the future the interdependence of mind and body will be more fully recognized, and that the influence of the one over the other may be exerted in a manner which is not now thought possible. |
four. he did not even object to the name when he was called an ass; but only said that he was the only animal able to bear the burdens which zeno put upon him. |
augustine, whose great work 'the city of god' originated in a similar motive, for not being loyal to the roman empire. |
what is the ape to man? a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. and just the same shall man be to the superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. |
and those that have professed arms but for an age, have, notwithstanding, commonly attained that greatness, in that age, which maintained them long after, when their profession and exercise of arms hath grown to decay. |
or, again, as old age is to life, so is evening to day. evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of empedocles, 'life's setting sun.' |
(a) the timaeus is more imaginative and less scientific than any other of the platonic dialogues. it is conjectural astronomy, conjectural natural philosophy, conjectural medicine. |
two. divide a given line so that the rectangle contained by its segments may be equal to a given square, not exceeding the square on half the given line. |
let us now proceed to define the terms 'together' and 'apart', 'in contact', 'between', 'in succession', 'contiguous', and 'continuous', and to show in what circumstances each of these terms is naturally applicable. |
the battle on thermodon that shall be, fail not, black raven, to attend and see; the flesh of men shall there abound for thee. |
for aratus, (whether fearing or distrusting cleomenes, or envying his unlooked-for success, or thinking it a disgrace for him who had commanded thirty-three years, to have a young man succeed to all his glory and his power, and be head of that government |
this, though it takes nothing from the moral and eternal obligation which these rules evidently have, yet it shows that the outward acknowledgment men pay to them in their words proves not that they are innate principles: nay, it proves not so much as |
sed cum magnam animadverteret in bonis et possessionibus difficultatem, quod et eos, quos ipse restituerat, quorum bona alii possederant, egere iniquissimum esse arbitrabatur et quinquaginta annorum possessiones moveri two hundred fifty two non nimis |
what with the perpetual collisions of the ancient feudal states, the grim conflicts with huns, turks and other invaders after the centralization of government, the terrific upheavals which accompanied the overthrow of so many dynasties, besides the |
for you have not the power to resist the words and ideas of your loves; and if a person were to express surprise at the strangeness of what you say from time to time when under their influence, you would probably reply to him, if you were honest, that you |
put to it becomes an addition of so much more good, and of goods the greater is ever the more choice-worthy. |
conversely, three is a submultiple, or measure, or part of six, nine, twelve, fifteen, c., because it is contained in each of these without a remainder; but not of ten, thirteen, seventeen, c., because in each case it leaves a remainder. |
world, whose sentences were first written on bark, and are now merely copied from time to time on to linen paper. says the poet mir camar uddin mast, "being seated to run through the region of the spiritual world; i have had this advantage in books. |
the agent acquires the power of doing them freely, willingly, more and more "of himself." |
from loss, or shall pay a penalty of twice the value of the dead man, which the judges shall assess; but purifications must be used greater and more numerous than for those who committed homicide at the games--what they are to be, the interpreters whom |
for when a is added to b, both a and b are greater, as when you mix wine with water; for each ingredient is alike increased in volume. perhaps the explanation is that the substance of the one remains unchanged, but the substance of the other (viz. |
or thus: since ep is a line drawn from a point within the circle apb to the circumference, but not forming part of the diameter through e, the circle whose centre is e and radius ep cuts vii., cor. |
nothing else is at the bottom of all such endeavours but the inexhaustible attempt which is always venturing on new paths, to sell words for thoughts, and by means of new expressions, or expressions used in a new sense, turns of phrases and combinations |
a thing must move either naturally or unnaturally, and the two movements are determined by the proper and alien places. |
and it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it, by the severe rules of truth and good reason; whereby it appears that it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them. |
islands, and enclose all the straits and passages, that none of the greeks might escape, and that they should afterwards follow with the rest of their fleet at leisure. |
if, then, view which we are criticizing involves these impossible consequences, it is clear that motion is eternal and cannot have existed at one time and not at another: in fact such a view can hardly be described as anythling else than fantastic. |
the transformation is effected by the superior power or number of the conquering elements. |
twenty six. mention all the instances of equality which are not congruence that occur in book one. |
pervert; and shall pervert; for man will hearken to his glozing lies, and easily transgress the sole command, sole pledge of his obedience: so will fall he and his faithless progeny: whose fault? whose but his own? |
for if we take a part of the motion which shall be a measure of the whole, the whole motion is completed in as many equal periods of the time as there are parts of the motion. |
flee into thy solitude! thou hast lived too closely to the small and the pitiable. flee from their invisible vengeance! towards thee they have nothing but vengeance. |
on these marches several of the baggage animals perished of hunger, for there was neither grass nor green herb, or tree of any sort; but the country throughout was barren. |
and now i will explain to you the generation of the world by a method with which your scientific training will have made you familiar. |
in the same manner it can be shown that a square yard contains nine square feet; and so in general the square described on any line contains n times the square described on the nth part of the line. |
and to themista, the wife of leonteus, he writes, "i am ready and prepared, if you do not come to me, to roll myself to wherever you and themista invite me." |
"men's minds are prone to the sword, and their souls able to bear death; and it is base to spare a life that will be renewed." --lucan, i. four hundred sixty one. |
possumusne aut illum marium virum bonum iudicare aut hunc three hundred thirty five ? explica atque excute intellegentiam tuam, ut videas, quae sit in ea species forma three hundred thirty six et notio viri boni. |
way. i want to hear justice praised in respect of itself; then i shall be satisfied, and you are the person from whom i think that i am most likely to hear this; and therefore i will praise the unjust life to the utmost of my power, and my manner of |
any higher external cause be constrained,) should beget anything and cherish it in her bosom that should tend to her own hurt and prejudice. |
and because the soveraignty is either in one man, or in an assembly of more than one; and into that assembly either every man hath right to enter, or not every one, but certain men distinguished from the rest; it is manifest, there can be but three kinds |
socrates: if, my boy, the argument, in speaking of adding the definition, had used the word to 'know,' and not merely 'have an opinion' of the difference, this which is the most promising of all the definitions of knowledge would have come to a pretty |
such a doctrine-or in other words that reason is in history-will be partly at least a plausible faith, partly it is a cognition of philosophy. |
popular enthusiasm were leading her to dream of empire. |
if he break the law, any citizen not less than thirty years of age may smite him. |
to each add acd, and we have the sum of the angles bac, acd equal to the sum of dce and acd; but the sum of bac, acd is i. xxix. two right angles; therefore the sum of dce and acd is two right angles. hence i. xiv. ac, ce are in the same right line. |
this line of proof assumes generally that the result of any given thing is always the same: e.g. 'you are going to decide not about isocrates, but about the value of the whole profession of philosophy.' |
socrates: then, if, as you would argue, not more painful, the evil of the soul is of all evils the most disgraceful; and the excess of disgrace must be caused by some preternatural greatness, or extraordinary hurtfulness of the evil. |
every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of new england, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first in connecticut, and |
of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. |
to construct a triangle whose three sides shall be respectively equal to three given lines (a, b, one hundred), the sum of every two of which is greater than the third. |
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