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i said: 'until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled |
and a thing is called healthy in a similar way; one thing because it is indicative of health, another because it is productive of it. and the same is true in the other cases. |
our intention is, that timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man; next, i am to |
he also used italics for words in other languages than english, and there are a number of greek words, in the greek alphabet, in the text. |
the gymnastic arts: and although any one should not desire to acquire an exact knowledge and skill in these exercises, yet it is not, on that account, the less necessary that he who professes to be a master and instruct the youth in them should be perfect |
as for porcia his wife, nicolaus the philosopher and valerius maximus write, that, being desirous to die, but being hindered by her friends, who continually watched her, she snatched some burning charcoal out of the fire, and, shutting it close in her |
young and old die upon the same terms; no one departs out of life otherwise than if he had but just before entered into it; neither is any man so old and decrepit, who, having heard of methuselah, does not think he has yet twenty good years to come. |
(that is why the poet was carried away into making an absurd statement when he said 'he has the end for the sake of which he was born'. for not every stage that is last claims to be an end, but only that which is best.) |
that one of the parts into which ab is divided is equal to one of the parts into which four hundred is divided. |
ask of thee not to do violence to these men, that it may not be our ruin, but endure to see that which is being done: as to my departure, however, in that i will do as thou sayest." |
if, on the other hand, 'unqualified not-being' means 'what is not in any sense at all', it will be a universal negation of all forms of being, so that what comes-to-be will have to come-to-be out of nothing. |
it is necessary to class it with privation or with potentiality or with sheer actuality, yet none of these seems possible. |
now the conception of the infinite possesses this power of principles, and indeed in the sphere of quantity possesses it in a higher degree than any other conception; so that it is in no way absurd or unreasonable that the assumption that an infinite body |
himself a tyrant; and i showed myself more valiant than those who hesitated to defend the state against him. but they condemned the madness of solon. |
and there are facts of observation in manifest agreement with our theories. thus we see that coming-to-be occurs as the sun approaches and decay as it retreats; and we see that the two processes occupy equal times. |
envious eye by many? is it because we, by means of the mind, judge of the pains and disorders of the body, but do not, by means of the body, arrive at any perception of the disorders of the mind? |
the most received explanation is that of martin, who supposes that plato is only speaking of surfaces and solids compounded of prime numbers (i.e. of numbers not made up of two factors, or, in other words, only measurable by unity). |
it is clear, then, from these considerations that there is no separate void. |
moreover, the public good made brutus pompey's friend (instead of his enemy as he had been) and caesar's enemy; since he proposed for his hatred and his friendship no other end and standard but justice. |
metaphysics, as here represented, is the only science which admits of completion-and with little labour, if it is united, in a short time; so that nothing will be left to future generations except the task of illustrating and applying it didactically . |
other. for by the names of evangelists and prophets, is not signified any office, but severall gifts, by which severall men were profitable to the church: as evangelists, by writing the life and acts of our saviour; such as were s. matthew and s. |
still more unreasonable is the consequence involved that, since everything that is moved is moved by something that is itself moved by something else, everything that has a capacity for causing motion has as such a corresponding capacity for being moved: |
many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. but one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. |
again, a place in which a thing rests or to which it moves unnaturally, must be the natural place for some other body, as experience shows. necessarily, therefore, not everything possesses weight or lightness, but some things do and some do not. |
thirty three it is indeed very remarkable how carelessly metaphysicians have always passed over the principle of the permanence of substances without ever attempting a proof of it; doubtless because they found themselves abandoned by all proofs as soon as |
but in the absence of natural body there is no movement, and outside the heaven, as we have shown, body neither exists nor can come to exist. it is clear then that there is neither place, nor void, nor time, outside the heaven. |
there is hardly any mention in plato of the creative arts; only in two or three passages does he even allude to them (rep.; soph.). he is not lost in rapture at the great works of phidias, the parthenon, the propylea, the statues of zeus or athene. |
now the point in the middle is potential: but this one is actual, and regarded from below it is a finishing-point, while regarded from above it is a starting-point, so that it stands in these same two respective relations to the two motions. |
therefore, as soon as they had read this letter, the course which they adopted was to approach nearer to the fortifications. |
i grant were the same consciousness the same individual action it could not: but it being a present representation of a past action, why it may not be possible, that that may be represented to the mind to have been which really never was, will remain to |
to define and divide one need not know the whole of existence. |
whole minus the part the other. but the whole minus a part cannot be the whole; and while this relation persists, there can be no whole, but only two unequal parts; and it follows that the will of one is no longer in any respect general in relation to the |
"we think some sorts of birds are purposely created to serve the purposes of augury."--cicero, de natura deor., ii. sixty four. |
anicetus then surrounded the house with a guard, and having burst open the gates, dragged off the slaves who met him, till he came to the door of her chamber, where a few still stood, after the rest had fled in terror at the attack. |
nor was human evidence wanting, certain enough in itself, though not sufficient for the conviction of the noble and powerful catiline. |
'youth is most charming when the beard first appears'? |
private; and as it is by this same quality that life is rendered safe, and honourable, and illustrious, and pleasant. |
prodigies and monstrosities (also in monstrous vices). |
then, i said, let us begin and create in idea a state; and yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. |
thus a false conclusion would follow because a false assumption was made, but if what was assumed had not been impossible its consequence would not have been impossible. |
both teaching and learning, though they are two, in the learner), then, first, the actuality of each will not be present in each, and, a second absurdity, a thing will have two motions at the same time. |
but the series must stop somewhere, since the kinds of motion are limited; and if we say that the process is reversible, and that that which is causing alteration is in process of locomotion, we do no more than if we had said at the outset that that which |
then we must also point out the laws and the course of judicial proceeding by which that offence which the accused person punished of his own accord, might have been chastised according to precedent, and by the regular course of justice. |
augustus, and contempt of the majesty of tiberius, while mamercus scaurus quoted old precedents, the prosecutions of lucius cotta by scipio africanus, of servius galba by cato the censor and of publius rutilius by scaurus. |
negotiations had been begun directly after their capture, but the athenians in their hour of triumph would not consent to any reasonable terms; though after their defeat at delium, lacedaemon, knowing that they would be now more inclined to listen, at |
but the person who is being accused will bring forward complaints of charges having been trumped up against him, and suspicions ferreted out from all quarters; and he will speak of the intrigues of the accuser, and also of the common danger of all |
and things can also be compressed not into a void but because they squeeze out what is contained in them (as, for instance, when water is compressed the air within it is squeezed out); and things can increase in size not only by the entrance of something |
the same also holds good in the case of excellences and defects and of the persons or things that possess or acquire them: for excellences are perfections of a thing's nature and defects are departures from it: consequently they are not alterations. |
triangle formed by the three remaining points, are proportional to the three rectangles ac, bd, dd. |
the first asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. this we have discussed above. |
revenge is in thy soul: wherever thou bitest, there ariseth black scab; with revenge, thy poison maketh the soul giddy! |
them; and we will have you for wives and no others." they however spoke thus in reply: "we should not be able to live with your women, for we and they have not the same customs. |
however, the alexandrians in general liked it all well enough, and joined good humoredly and kindly in his frolic and play, saying they were much obliged to antony for acting his tragic parts at rome, and keeping his comedy for them. |
why did that marius live to an old age, and die so happily at his own house in his seventh consulship? why was that inhuman wretch cinna permitted to enjoy so long a reign? |
aratus, immediately after, made himself master of the temple of juno and haven of lechaeum, seized upon five and twenty of the king's ships, together with five hundred horses and four hundred syrians; these he sold. |
if two lines (bd, four hundred) be drawn to a point (five hundred) within a triangle from the extremities of its base (bc), their sum is less than the sum of the remaining sides (ba, ca), but they contain a greater angle. |
thro' elis and the grecian towns he flew; th' audacious wretch four fiery coursers drew: he wav'd a torch aloft, and, madly vain, sought godlike worship from a servile train. ambitious fool! |
yes, he said, that is what will happen in a well-ordered state. |
changeable is she, and wayward; often have i seen her bite her lip, and pass the comb against the grain of her hair. |
thus such conditions are called affections, not qualities. in like manner there are affective qualities and affections of the soul. that temper with which a man is born and which has its origin in certain deep-seated affections is called a quality. |
divided-not even if it has been divided into innumerable parts, themselves divided innumerable times. nothing impossible will have resulted, though perhaps nobody in fact could so divide it. |
three. if we substitute in (), (), (), () squares for triangles, and pentagons for triangles, we have the problems for squares and pentagons respectively. |
will have been educated by you, and introduce them to you as the lost athenian citizens of whom the egyptian record spoke. as the law of solon prescribes, we will bring them into court and acknowledge their claims to citizenship. |
but he is unable to invent such a narrative himself; and he is afraid that the poets are equally incapable; for, although he pretends to have nothing to say against them, he remarks that they are a tribe of imitators, who can only describe what they have |
the fifth regular solid, or dodecahedron, cannot be formed by a combination of either of these triangles, but each of its faces may be regarded as composed of thirty triangles of another kind. |
moreover, any object which is apprehended by the senses has an existence of its own, while signs are only relative. |
to what they should do with the former, in the fury of the moment determined to put to death not only the prisoners at athens, but the whole adult male population of mitylene, and to make slaves of the women and children. |
sixty three. thus, as the lute and the pipe were made for those, and those only, who are capable of playing on them, so it must be allowed that the produce of the earth was designed for those only who make use of them; and though some beasts may rob us of |
has nature covenanted with me that i should never appear to disadvantage, never make a ridiculous figure? let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money. greatness once and for ever has done with opinion. |
moved, and (b) 'reciprocal contact' as the relation between two things, one able to impart motion and the other able to be moved in such a way that 'action and passion' are predicable of them. |
essentially and severally to themselves distinct from the motion of the whole. |
as if they were those very athenians whom the sacred egyptian record has recovered from oblivion, and thenceforward we will speak of them as athenians and fellow-citizens. |
five. each diagonal of a lozenge is an axis of symmetry of the lozenge. |
twenty three. if the sides of a triangle be expressed by m n , m n , and mn linear units, respectively; prove that it is right-angled. |
hesiod and the orphic poets moved in a region of half-personification in which the meaning or principle appeared through the person. |
"remember that the greatest pains are terminated by death; that slighter pains have long intermissions of repose, and that we are masters of the more moderate sort: so that, if they be tolerable, we bear them; if not, we can go out of life, as from a |
but a disease of the mind is distinguishable only in thought from a sickness. but a viciousness is a habit or affection discordant and inconsistent with itself through life. |
flame-colour (greek) is produced by a union of auburn and dun (greek), and dun by an admixture of black and white; pale yellow (greek), by an admixture of white and auburn. |
or are they each of them always what they are, having the same simple self-existent and unchanging forms, not admitting of variation at all, or in any way, or at any time? |
magnitudes in continued proportion are also said to be in geometrical progression. |
and antigonus of carystus gives a similar account: and persus was the only man with whom he had an implacable quarrel; for he thought that when antigonus himself was willing to re-establish the democracy among the eretrians for his sake, persus prevented |
oedipus. dear son of aegeus, to the gods alone is given immunity from eld and death; but nothing else escapes all-ruinous time. |
i complain that they did not keep up the fashion, begun after the example of kings, to change our napkin at every service, as they do our plate. |
esteemed, he said: wealth no inducement nor a bar to personal service "for my part, one prefer a man without money to money without a man." but the moral sense of to-day is demoralized and depraved by our worship of wealth. |
it is the fashion of the present time to disparage negative logic--that which points out weaknesses in theory or errors in practice, without establishing positive truths. |
moreover, do not state the conclusions of these premisses but draw them later one after another; for this is likely to keep the answerer at the greatest possible distance from the original proposition. |
being sometimes from smallness to greatness, and sometimes from greatness to smallness. |
now that minucius and fabius were divided, he thought the opportunity fair for his purpose; and, therefore, having in the night time lodged a convenient number of his men in these ditches and hollow places, early in the morning he sent forth a small |
eight. what are the terms of a ratio called? |
nevertheless, since there is also a matter out of which corporeal substance itself comes-to-be (corporeal substance, however, already characterized as such-and-such a determinate body, for there is no such thing as body in general), this same matter is |
the inhabitants were divided into two parties on the question of receiving him; those who had joined the chalcidians in inviting him, and the popular party. |
it is clear from this statement, then, in how many ways numbers may be described, and that all the ways have been mentioned; and all these views are impossible, but some perhaps more than others. |
i do not know that they can find me in all their records three that were born, bred, and died under the same roof, who have lived so long by their conduct. |
the liberty of thought itself, and resting in great part on the same reasons, is practically inseparable from it. |
to what length now will not anger go? even as far as madness. |
i have, indeed, no intuition which should determine its objective theoretic reality, but not the less it has a real application, which is exhibited in concreto in intentions or maxims; that is, it has a practical reality which can be specified, and this |
admire, and extraordinary examples, marks of express and particular purposes, of the nature of miracles, presented before us for manifestations of its almightiness, equally above both our rules and force, which it would be folly and impiety to attempt to |
"the absurdity of the separation would appear also if one were to assign a name to each of the essences; for there would be yet another essence besides the original one, e.g. to the essence of horse there will belong a second essence. |
one hundred ten. themistocles then speaking thus endeavoured to deceive them, and the athenians followed his advice: for he had had the reputation even in former times of being a man of ability seventy eight and he had now proved himself to be in truth |
to lose its labour; for so it is to act for what is judged not attainable; and therefore very great uneasinesses move not the will, when they are judged not capable of a cure: they in that case put us not upon endeavours. |
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