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then i will begin at once, said alcibiades, and if i say anything which is not true, you may interrupt me if you will, and say 'that is a lie,' though my intention is to speak the truth.
what is there that can discompose such gravity and constancy? anything sudden or unforeseen? how can anything of this kind befall one to whom nothing is sudden and unforeseen that can happen to man?
again, four; six; three, five are called alternate angles; lastly, one, five; two, six; three, eight; four, seven are called corresponding angles.
hating the man to whom i am doing the greatest good, since i am rescuing him from himself? does a man hate his own limbs when he cuts them off? that is not an act of anger, but a lamentable method of healing.
another person, i said, might fairly reply as you do; but a man of pleasure like yourself ought to know that all who are in the flower of youth do somehow or other raise a pang or emotion in a lover's breast, and are thought by him to be worthy of his
he that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle.
five. scipio and his friends having again assembled, scipio spoke as follows: in our last conversation, i promised to prove that honesty is the best policy in all states and commonwealths whatsoever.
pleasure in the management of their private estates. seventy such men have had the same aims as kings--to suffer no want, to be subject to no authority, to enjoy their liberty, that is, in its essence, to live just as they please.
for how weighty are the words: "that i be not deceived and defrauded through you and my confidence in you"! how precious are these: "as between honest people there ought to be honest dealing, and no deception"!
but to the enemy he was a laughing-stock, for they still retained some of the fire of liberty, knowing nothing yet of the power of freedmen, and so they marvelled to see a general and an army who had finished such a war cringing to slaves.
from what has been said it is evident, then, that void does not exist either separate (either absolutely separate or as a separate element in the rare) or potentially, unless one is willing to call the condition of movement void, whatever it may be.
said pyrrhus, smiling, "we will live at our ease, my dear friend, and drink all day, and divert ourselves with pleasant conversation."
he took notice that the presence of other women produced no effect upon him; but when stratonice came, as she often did, alone, or in company with seleucus, to see him, he observed in him all sappho's famous symptoms, his voice faltered, his face flushed
there is nor the consideration. the greater or less strain upon the nerves of the eye or ear is communicated to the mind and silently informs the judgment.
germanicus heard of all this with anger, no less than with fear. "if my doors," he said, "are to be besieged, if i must gasp out my last breath under my enemies' eyes, what will then be the lot of my most unhappy wife, of my infant children?
proof), then manifestly there is necessarily a limit to the number of elements.
but it is not the fulfilment of bronze as bronze which is motion. for 'to be bronze' and 'to be a certain potentiality' are not the same.
the pow'rs of troy, then issuing on the plain, with fresh recruits their youthful chief sustain: not theirs a raw and unexperienc'd train, but a firm body of embattled men.
so it is clear that in all these cases the thing does not move itself, but it contains within itself the source of motion-not of moving something or of causing motion, but of suffering it.
for 'to be man' is different from 'to be unmusical', and 'to be unformed' from 'to be bronze'.
of the material's being condensed or rarefied or heated or cooled, nevertheless it is not the things that are coming into existence that are altered, and their becoming is not an alteration.
serviceable or repugnant to mankind. to those who ask why god did not so create all men, that they should be governed only by reason, i give no answer but this: because matter was not lacking to him for the creation of every degree of perfection from
doctrinae et ingenii gloriam adiecit. fit autem interdum, ut non nulli omissa imitatione maiorum suum quoddam institutum consequantur, maximeque in eo plerumque elaborant ii, one hundred eleven qui magna sibi proponunt obscuris orti maioribus.
for these reasons it appears to us that the best method is to state euclid's definitions, explain them, or prove them when necessary, for some are theorems under the guise of definitions, and then supply simple algebraic proofs of his propositions.
these each man should follow, and correct the courses of the head which were corrupted at our birth, and by learning the harmonies and revolutions of the universe, should assimilate the thinking being to the thought, renewing his original nature, and
three. if the perpendiculars of a triangle be produced to meet the circumscribed circle, the intercepts between the orthocentre and the circle are bisected by the sides of the triangle.
was not done with a view to the other. thus the spontaneous is even according to its derivation the case in which the thing itself happens in vain.
thirteen. what does the line become when the points of intersection become consecutive?
this victory eumenes obtained about ten days after the former, and got great reputation alike for his conduct and his valor in achieving it.
make to the attainment of thy intended worldly ends. eighthly, how many things may and do oftentimes follow upon such fits of anger and grief; far more grievous in themselves, than those very things which we are so grieved or angry for.
therefore each is both generated and destructible. therefore 'generated' and 'destructible' are coincident. now let e stand for the ungenerated, f for the generated, g for the indestructible, and h for the destructible.
as nature therefore makes nothing either imperfect or in vain, it necessarily follows that she has made all these things for men: for which reason what we gain in war is in a certain degree a natural acquisition; for hunting is a part of it, which it is
"i also saw fair epicaste mother of king oedipodes whose awful lot it was to marry her own son without suspecting it.
if it were, any portion of it would have this movement; but in fact every part moves in a straight line to the centre. being, then, constrained and unnatural, the movement could not be eternal. but the order of the universe is eternal.
so that the army was encouraged much more and was more eagerly desirous to face the danger..
things come-to-be out of that which has no 'being' without qualification: yet in another sense they come-to-be always out of what is'.
deprived of his senses, the third day after ended a life, in which he had wanted no manner of thing which is thought to conduce to happiness.
but finding there was no way to come at it, as he rode about, threatening them in vain and disconcerted, he took notice that the wind raised the dust and carried it up towards the caves of the characitanians, the mouths of which, as i said before, opened
the views taken of it involve arguments both for and against, in much the same sort of way.
turn my self to that part which is false , one am deceived ; but if i embrace the contrary part, 'tis but by chance that i light on the truth , yet i shall not therefore be blameless, for 'tis manifest by the light of nature that the perception of the
eye-lids: other creatures all day long rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest; man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed, which declares his dignity, and the regard of heaven on all his ways; while other animals unactive range, and of their
; but the triangle bac is equal to the triangle bdc (hyp.). therefore (axiom i.) the triangle bec is equal to the triangle bdc-that is, a part equal to the whole which is absurd. hence ad must be parallel to bc.
"ceu flamina prima cum deprensa fremunt sylvis et caeca volutant murmura, venturos nautis prodentia ventos."
suppose the circle whose centre is o and one of the points of intersection a to remain fixed, while the second circle turns round that point in such a manner that the second point of intersection b becomes ultimately consecutive to a; then, since the line
body, then we should say that the body has been destroyed by a corruption of itself, which is disease, brought on by this; but that the body, being one thing, can be destroyed by the badness of food, which is another, and which does not engender any
do one fear the master of things which are not in my power? and what are these things to me?
vowed unto me,-- that man i love! who troubleth not his kind, and is not troubled by them; clear of wrath, living too high for gladness, grief, or fear, that man i love!
so far as i make a show to do. if i could hold them in play, i were a brave fellow; for i never attack them; but where they are most sinewy and strong.
notwithstanding this, he had no reason to suppose that cato's zeal in the cause was in any way diminished.
(six) we should not lay too much stress on aristotle or the writer de caelo having adopted the other interpretation of the words, although alexander of aphrodisias thinks that he could not have been ignorant either of the doctrine of plato or of the sense
cato at length grew so famous among them, that when sylla designed to exhibit the sacred game of young men riding courses on horseback, which they called troy, having gotten together the youth of good birth, he appointed two for their leaders.
the bacchic frenzy, she asked everyone that came in from the forum what brutus was doing, and sent one messenger after another to inquire.
the swiftness of those circles attribute, though numberless, to his omnipotence, that to corporeal substances could add speed almost spiritual: me thou thinkest not slow, who since the morning-hour set out from heaven where god resides, and ere mid-day
number of those who are to be taken for models. for he is not engaged in actual conflict; he is not armed for the fray; his speeches are made for display, like foils.
when we have determined the nature of motion, our next task will be to attack in the same way the terms which are involved in it.
the charge of atheism , which used often to be brought against philosophy (that it has too little of god), has grown rare: the more wide-spread grows the charge of pantheism, that it has too much of him:-so much so, that it is treated not so much as an
socrates: neither did we forget the women; of whom we declared, that their natures should be assimilated and brought into harmony with those of the men, and that common pursuits should be assigned to them both in time of war and in their ordinary life.
socrates: and shall i explain this wonder to you?
moreover, since (a) the 'simple' bodies appear to move 'naturally' as well as by compulsion, i.e. in a manner contrary to nature (fire, e.g.
neither can its faculties of desiring , perceiving , understanding , c.
now all things rest and move naturally and by constraint. a thing moves naturally to a place in which it rests without constraint, and rests naturally in a place to which it moves without constraint.
scribe of the sacred treasury of athene at the city of sais in egypt.
every proposition in the fifth book is a theorem.
and thus much shall suffice for the nature of punishment, and reward; which are, as it were, the nerves and tendons, that move the limbes and joynts of a common-wealth.
concerning the means of procuring unity; men must beware, that in the procuring, or reuniting, of religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity, and of human society.
there was also to be read what tributes were imposed on these nations, the weight of silver and gold, the tale of arms and horses, the gifts of ivory and of perfumes to the temples, with the amount of grain and supplies furnished by each people, a revenue
in peru they rode post upon men, who took them upon their shoulders in a certain kind of litters made for that purpose, and ran with such agility that, in their full speed, the first couriers transferred their load to the second without making any stop.
rome, and, to ingratiate himself with the people, taking upon himself the name of caesar, and punctually distributing among the citizens the money that was left them by the will, he soon got the better of antony; and by money and largesses, which he
polus: you are hard of refutation, socrates, but might not a child refute that statement?
above is the principle of length, right of breadth, front of depth. or again we may connect them with the various movements, taking principle to mean that part, in a thing capable of movement, from which movement first begins.
first, then, of courage. now that it is a mean state, in respect of fear and boldness, has been already said: further, the objects of our fears are obviously things fearful or, in a general way of statement, evils; which accounts for the common definition
for these deserts, and this high virtue shown, ye warlike youths, your heads with garlands crown: fill high the goblets with a sparkling flood, and with deep draughts invoke our common god."
now each of these belongs to all its subjects in either of two ways: namely (one) substance-the one is positive form, the other privation; (two) in quality, white and black; (three) in quantity, complete and incomplete; (four) in respect of locomotion,
again, in the state of nature, no one is by common consent master of anything, nor is there anything in nature, which can be said to belong to one man rather than another: all things are common to all.
he harassed him with calumnies, and had often put him in terror by hinting that he had been agrippina's paramour, and from sorrow at her loss was intent on vengeance.
an elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden i love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back
and, besides, he is a witty man, so that he will be able to get on very well with marcus curius, who will be one of his colleagues, and with whom he is in the habit of playing.
and therefore, if his idea of eternity be infinite, so is his idea of immensity; they are both finite or infinite alike.
five.eighteen, nineteen.) "as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousnesse of one, the free gift came upon all men to justification of life." which is again (one cor.
divide your men, agamemnon, into their several tribes and clans, that clans and tribes may stand by and help one another.
for it is a necessary condition of every cognition that is to be established upon a priori grounds that it shall be held to be absolutely necessary; much more is this the case with an attempt to determine all pure a priori cognition, and to furnish the
androcydes, the cyzicenian, had undertaken to paint a previous battle for the city, and was at work in thebes; and when the revolt began, and the war came on, the thebans kept the picture that was then almost finished.
verily, my brother, said zarathustra, it is a treasure that hath been given me: it is a little truth which i carry.
when i came out of prison,-for some one interfered, and paid the tax,-i did not perceive that great changes had taken place on the common, such as he observed who went in a youth, and emerged a gray-headed man; and yet a change had to my eyes come over
dem.-on ab describe the square abde. join be. through one hundred draw cg parallel to ae, intersecting be in f. through f draw hk parallel to ab.
many illustrations of this part of the republic may be found in modern politics and in daily life. for among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of politicians or statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways.
this would be worse. war, therefore, open or concealed, alike my voice dissuades; for what can force or guile with him, or who deceive his mind, whose eye views all things at one view?
geometry, rhetoric. but still gorgias could hardly have meant to say that arithmetic was the same as rhetoric. even in the arts which are concerned with words there are differences.
five for instance, contrast or contrariety is also a connexion among ideas: but it may, perhaps, be considered as a mixture of causation and resemblance .
but also because a thing that is in motion loses its essential character less in the process of locomotion than in any other kind of motion: it is the only motion that does not involve a change of being in the sense in which there is a change in quality
cassander still retained his usual superscription in his letters, but others, both in writing and speaking, gave him the royal title. nor was this the mere accession of a name, or introduction of a new fashion.
sect. one hundred three. and i hope those who went away from sparta with palantus, mentioned by justin, one. iii. c. four.
and perhaps this opaqueness may be caused by some particles which some current brings from without; perhaps also, the heat communicates to the moon the property of emitting by the pores in its surface, the particles by which this effect is produced.
to renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. for him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible.
objections, and she found herself confuted, she broke off at once into language of entreaty and deprecation, as if she desired nothing more than to prolong her life.
"o zarathustra! crack not so terribly with thy whip! thou knowest surely that noise killeth thought,-and just now there came to me such delicate thoughts.
thus did the earth-encircler address the achaeans and urge them on.
for indeed, in these verses, and in what he said of the cyclopes, he speaks the words of god and nature; for poets are a divine race, and often in their strains, by the aid of the muses and the graces, they attain truth.
concerning the dead of either sex, the religious ceremonies which may fittingly be performed, whether appertaining to the gods of the under-world or of this, shall be decided by the interpreters with absolute authority.
see how he nods his head like a drunken man; he has had such a thrashing that he cannot stand on his feet nor get back to his home, wherever that may be, for he has no strength left in him."

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