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to remove this difficulty, and to help us to conceive aright what it is that makes the confusion ideas are at any time chargeable with, we must consider, that things ranked under distinct names are supposed different enough to be distinguished, that so |
one hundred thirty. the fleet of xerxes, so much of it as remained, when it had touched asia in its flight from salamis, and had conveyed the king and his army over from the chersonese to abydos, passed the winter at kyme: and when spring dawned upon it, |
(two. the infinite cannot act upon the finite.) nor, again, can the infinite produce a movement in the finite in any time whatever. let a be an infinite, b a finite, one hundred the time of action. |
but people really mean that there is an empty interval in which there is no sensible body. they hold that everything which is in body is body and say that what has nothing in it at all is void (so what is full of air is void). |
the stoics say that there is so great connection and relation amongst the sages, that he who dines in france nourishes his companion in egypt; and that whoever does but hold out his finger, in what part of the world soever, all the sages upon the |
prepared to receive scents, or the smooth and soft materials on which figures are impressed. |
he asks only 'what good have they done?' and is not satisfied with the reply, that 'they have given innocent pleasure to mankind.' |
private appetite the rule of publique good: |
pity on anything, but to the utmost extent of human virtue he will endeavour to do well, as the saying is, and to rejoice. |
wenley, r. one thousand., stoicism and its influence . new york, one thousand nine hundred twenty seven. |
this so desperate and unphilosophical advice expresses only this,--that human knowledge cannot support itself but by reason unreasonable, foolish, and mad; but that it is yet better that man, to set a greater value upon himself, make use of any other |
we can only reply, (one) that to the mind of plato subject and object were not yet distinguished; (two) that he supposes the process of creation to take place in accordance with his own theory of ideas; and as we cannot give a consistent account of the |
reconcile the greeks, that they might be formidable to barbarians, and that they should cease henceforth to need their aid against one another. |
in this enterprise, seneca made tremendous strides toward the insights of social psychology as a by-product of his consciousness of decadence (in this he was close to nietzsche), but he was not primarily concerned with the unity of the stoic system. |
three. if the sides of a polygon of n sides be produced, the sum of the angles between each alternate pair is equal to two(n four) right angles. |
for each of these marks off a certain class of things for itself and busies itself about this as about something existing and real,-not however qua real; the science that does this is another distinct from these. |
iii. ratio is the mutual relation of two magnitudes of the same kind with respect to quantity. |
but their hour cometh! and there cometh also mine! hourly do they become smaller, poorer, unfruitfuller,-poor herbs! poor earth! |
everything that has changed, therefore, must previously have been changing: for the same proof also holds good of change with respect to what is not continuous, changes, that is to say, between contraries and between contradictories. |
in it the agent, as a volitional and intelligent being, sets up a law-a law however which is nominal and recognised by him only-a universal which holds good for him , and under which he has at the same time subsumed himself by his action. |
there occurred too a thick succession of portents, which meant nothing. a woman gave birth to a snake, and another was killed by a thunderbolt in her husband's embrace. |
euboea to the oetaeans and the malian gulf, and to the achaeans of phthiotis and the thessalians; all of them to treat with the people as they passed, and to persuade them to come and take their part in the debates for settling the peace and jointly |
afterwards, let those achaeans who may be left at the ships when i am gone, build it both broad and high." |
and he seems to have been detested one hundred twenty three by the pythagoreans, parmeniscus, and orestades, as phavorinus relates in the first book of his commentaries. |
and similarly love is not specially the cause of existence; for in collecting things into the one it destroys all other things. and at the same time empedocles mentions no cause of the change itself, except that things are so by nature. |
soc. but tell me, how shall i assist you best, think you? by praising you falsely or by persuading you to try to be a good man? or if it is not plain to you thus, look at the matter by the light of some examples. |
the mind becomes able to despise the power of misfortunes. you may see what endurance might effect in us if you observe what labour does among tribes that are naked and rendered stronger by want. |
besides this, their late numerous reverses of fortune, coming close one upon another without any reason, had thoroughly unnerved them, and they were always afraid of a second disaster like that on the island, and thus scarcely dared to take the field, but |
greek. jesting upon postumius albinus, who had written a historical work in greek, and requested that allowances might be made for his attempt, he said, that allowance indeed might be made, if he had done it under the express compulsion of an amphictyonic |
dem.-if possible let the intersecting line be out of the plane, as egf. and in the plane, of the parallels draw i. post. ii. the right line ehf. then we have two right lines egf, ehf, enclosing a space, which i. axiom x. is impossible. |
thus 'between' implies the presence of at least three things: for in a process of change it is the contrary that is 'last': and a thing is moved continuously if it leaves no gap or only the smallest possible gap in the material-not in the time (for a gap |
thus, without any selective reflection, the person performs its duty as his own and as something which is ; and in this necessity he has himself and his actual freedom. |
some relate that an asp was brought in amongst those figs and covered with the leaves, and that cleopatra had arranged that it might settle on her before she knew, but, when she took away some of the figs and saw it, she said, "so here it is," and held |
beasts, he becomes liable to be destroyed by him he uses force against, as any savage ravenous beast, that is dangerous to his being. |
he gave a fresh occasion of resentment by his affront to the tribunes. the lupercalia were then celebrated, a feast at the first institution belonging, as some writers say, to the shepherds, and having some connection with the arcadian lycaea. |
other men. hunger also and thirst should be avoided for the same reason; they exasperate and irritate men's minds: it is an old saying that "a weary man is quarrelsome ": and so also is a hungry or a thirsty man, or one who is suffering from any cause |
as the public suppers exceed those which are given at one person's private expense: for, as they are many, each person brings in his share of virtue and wisdom; and thus, coming together, they are like one man made up of a multitude, with many feet, many |
all saw, but he, th' arcadian troops retire in scatter'd squadrons, and their prince expire. the giant brothers, in their camp, have found, i was not forc'd with ease to quit my ground. |
then he is a parricide, and a cruel guardian of an aged parent; and this is real tyranny, about which there can be no longer a mistake: as the saying is, the people who would escape the smoke which is the slavery of freemen, has fallen into the fire which |
so that pompey himself seemed to have presided, as it were, over the revenge done upon his adversary, who lay here at his feet, and breathed out his soul through his multitude of wounds, for they say he received three and twenty. |
the born, sworn, jealous friends of solitude, of our own profoundest midnight and midday solitude--such kind of men are we, we free spirits! and perhaps ye are also something of the same kind, ye coming ones? ye new philosophers? |
plato says, 'naked, or wearing only a short tunic and without a girdle. (b) athenian law, as well as plato, did not allow a father to disinherit his son without good reason and the consent of impartial persons (telfy). |
meanwhile he posted his remaining legions on the bank of the euphrates, armed a hastily collected force of provincials, and occupied with troops the enemy's approaches. |
thirdly, it may be objected that one affirmation does not apparently contain more reality than another; in other words, that we do not seem to need for affirming, that what is true is true, any greater power than for affirming, that what is false is true. |
as for the proofs alledged out of scripture, namely, those examples of images appointed by god to bee set up; they were not set up for the people, or any man to worship; but that they should worship god himselfe before them: as before the cherubins over |
some god, they knew-what god, they could not tell- did there amidst the sacred horror dwell. |
cor. four.-if a figure of n sides be divided into triangles by drawing diagonals from any one of its angles there will be (n two) triangles; hence the sum of its angles is equal two(n two) right angles. |
old in speaking of the causes of generation and decay took account of chance; whence it would seem that they too did not believe that anything is by chance. but there is a further circumstance that is surprising. |
the word is giv'n; with eager speed they lace the shining headpiece, and the shield embrace. the neighing steeds are to the chariot tied; the trusty weapon sits on ev'ry side. |
dem.-if the planes be not parallel, they will meet when produced. let them meet, their common section being the line gh, in which take any point k. join ak, bk. |
now their most important differences are those of property, function, and power; for every natural body has, we maintain, its own functions, properties, and powers. |
the answer is, a rational and mortal being. then by the rational faculty from whom are we separated? from wild beasts. and from what others? from sheep and like animals. |
when the lung, which is the dispenser of the air to the body, is obstructed by rheums and its passages are not free, some of them not acting, while through others too much air enters, then the parts which are unrefreshed by air corrode, while in other |
antony, therefore, changing his mind, marched away upon this road that night, commanding that everyone should carry water sufficient for his own use; but most of them being unprovided with vessels, they made shift with their helmets, and some with skins. |
just, then, as the infinite cannot be quantity-that would imply that it has a particular quantity, e,g, two or three cubits; quantity just means these-so a thing's being in place means that it is somewhere, and that is either up or down or in some other |
one , and these are evidently the perpendiculars from the vertices on the opposite sides of the triangle abc (compare ex. sixteen, book one.). |
same as the effect either generically-or the efficient cause of the coming-to-be of a hard thing is not a hard thing or specifically, as e.g. |
suppose a man refused to grant some boon when you importuned him, and afterwards when you had got your heart's desire, consented, granting a grace from which all grace had fled, would not such favor seem an empty boon? |
those which are used in borrowed senses, or changed, or those which we as it were misuse; or those which we make obscure; which we in some incredible manner remove altogether; and which we embellish in a more marvellous manner than the ordinary usage of |
and in estimating the men too, may i not fairly make a like request, that i should have a judge whose mind can enter into and see through human nature? |
it appears as though this plague moved in a regular orbit, and spread ruin and desolation among us all without distinction of persons, all being alike its prey. |
marcus lepidus as able but contemptuously indifferent, gallus asinius as ambitious and incapable, lucius arruntius as not unworthy of it, and, should the chance be given him, sure to make the venture. |
for instance, they place on the stage any kind of celebrated man, however stripped of dramatic incidents his life may have been, nay, sometimes without waiting until the persons who appear with him are dead. |
prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. |
two hundred twenty four. now by this time the spears of the greater number of them were broken, so it chanced, in this combat, and they were slaying the persians with their swords; and in this fighting fell leonidas, having proved himself a very good man, |
(c) the comparison of the two passages quoted by mr grote (see his pamphlet on 'the rotation of the earth') from aristotle de coelo, book two (greek) clearly shows, although this is a matter of minor importance, that aristotle, as proclus and simplicius |
but in order that the principle may be explained in the more simple way, the rules which we have laid down shall be enumerated briefly. |
jacques amiot, grand almoner of france, one day related to me this story, much to the honour of a prince of ours (and ours he was upon several very good accounts, though originally of foreign extraction),-- the duc de guise, surnamed le balafre. |
in this voyage, all brothers, whose names were euneos, thoas, and soloon. |
this extreme inwardising of representation is the supreme self-divestment of intelligence, in which it renders itself the mere being , the universal space of names as such, i.e. of meaningless words. |
i now am not much surprised at your seeking to disturb the general tranquillity; at your hating not only the city but the light of day; and at your living with a pack of abandoned robbers, disregarding the day, and yet regarding nothing beyond the day. |
for this is the meaning of the expression: "an object is contained under a conception." |
and philosophers are not tadpoles, but physicians and husbandmen, who till the soil and infuse health into animals and plants, and make the good take the place of the evil, both in individuals and states. |
but heraclides gives an entirely different account of him; saying, that while he was the chief councillor of the eretrians, he more than once preserved the liberties of the city from those who would have brought in demetrius the tyrant; so that he never |
and opened a lane for the thebans, as if they desired to pass through and escape. but when pelopidas entered, and turning against those that stood their ground, still went on with a bloody slaughter, an open fight ensued amongst the spartans. |
natural to it. hence, too, in learning and in forming judgements on matters relating to their sense-perceptions children are inferior to adults owing to the great amount of restlessness and motion in their souls. |
cleomenes faced them at pallantium, and offered battle, but aratus, being cowed by his bravery, would not suffer the general to engage, but retreated, amidst the reproaches of the achaeans, and the derision and scorn of the spartans, who were not above |
forty. circumscribe a square about a given quadrilateral. |
why have not we such people?-- as those about to be mentioned. |
the two sufficed for the former discussion: one, which we assumed, was a pattern intelligible and always the same; and the second was only the imitation of the pattern, generated and visible. |
the body which moves in a circle must necessarily be finite in every respect, for the following reasons. (one) if the body so moving is infinite, the radii drawn from the centre will be infinite. |
friend, and keeping craterus his friend from turning to be his enemy. |
the spirit of revenge: my friends, that hath hitherto been man's best contemplation; and where there was suffering, it was claimed there was always penalty. |
the world was made in the form of a globe, and all the material elements were exhausted in the work of creation. |
ever after, when they met, they passed one another with silence, and continued on their guard, till caesar, the younger, coming from apollonia, entered on the first caesar's inheritance, and was engaged in a dispute with antony about two thousand five |
there may have been, in all likelihood, something of a secret grudge and private animosity which he had against the megarians. |
those goddesses; his enemies the while rejoicing, that he, of his own accord, sought the destruction hanging over his head. |
tacitean brevity is proverbial, and many of his sentences are so brief, and leave so much for the student to read between the lines, that in order to be understood and appreciated the author must be read over and over again, lest the reader miss the point |
alcmaeon of crotona, in attributing a divinity to the sun, the moon, and the rest of the stars, and also to the mind, did not perceive that he was ascribing immortality to mortal beings. |
xix. a system of more than three concurrent lines is called a pencil of lines. each line of a pencil is called a ray, and the common point through which the rays pass is called the vertex. |
early science is not a process of discovery in the modern sense; but rather a process of correcting by observation, and to a certain extent only, the first impressions of nature, which mankind, when they began to think, had received from poetry or |
further, inasmuch as length is prior to breadth, if above is the principle of length, right of breadth, and if the principle of that which is prior is itself prior, then above will be prior to right, or let us say, since 'prior' is ambiguous, prior in |
included under the general name of honey: and, lastly, there is a frothy nature, which differs from all juices, having a burning quality which dissolves the flesh; it is called opos (a vegetable acid). |
socrates: the thoroughbred sophists, who know all that can be known about the mind, and argue only out of the superfluity of their wits, would have had a regular sparring-match over this, and would have knocked their arguments together finely. |
inevitable physical necessity? some try to evade this by saying that the causes that determine his causality are of such a kind as to agree with a comparative notion of freedom. |
hazards and dangers do, in truth, little or nothing hasten our end; and if we consider how many thousands more remain and hang over our heads, besides the accident that immediately threatens us, we shall find that the sound and the sick, those that are |
a noble presentiment, in few words, of the chinese "happy warrior." such a man, says ho shih, "even if he had to suffer punishment, would not regret his conduct." |
cor. three.-if a line intersect two concentric circles, its intercepts between the circles are equal. |
was what a property is, viz. what is predicated convertibly, but does not signify the essence. |
and this tendency in bodies to condense or escape is a source of motion...where there is motion there must be a mover, and where there is a mover there must be something to move. |
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