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statu naturae discedas, nihil a dignitate sapientis, robusti animi est magnaeque constantiae. sixty eight non est autem consentaneum, qui metu non frangatur, eum frangi cupiditate nec, qui invictum se a labore praestiterit, vinci a voluptate. |
four. the unlearned think that its opposite is strictness: but no virtue is the opposite of another virtue. what, then, is the opposite of mercy? cruelty: which is nothing more than obstinacy in exacting punishments. |
it is plain, then, that there are elements, and why. |
as if the dead of whom they dreamed, were not inhabitants of their own brain, but of the air, or of heaven, or hell; not phantasmes, but ghosts; with just as much reason, as if one should say, he saw his own ghost in a looking-glasse, or the ghosts of the |
suffer variation from adventitious notions, we must then find them clearest and most perspicuous nearest the fountain, in children and illiterate people, who have received least impression from foreign opinions. |
and we gazed at each other, and looked at the green meadow o'er which the cool evening was just passing, and we wept together.-then, however, was life dearer unto me than all my wisdom had ever been.- |
movement is called infinite in virtue of the magnitude covered by the movement (or alteration or growth), and time because of the movement. (i use these terms for the moment. |
every night had its anxieties, for his sleepless hours, his dreams and sighs were all made known by his wife to her mother livia and by livia to sejanus. |
seven. does any one then fear war from this man, who, until we commenced the war, being compelled to do so, preferred lying unknown in peace to flourishing in war? |
opposite parts. indeed, when it is in every direction similar, how can one rightly give to it names which imply opposition? |
when in advanced old age, he was worn out by a sickly frame, and the end was near and new prospects opened, a few spoke in vain of the blessings of freedom, but most people dreaded and some longed for war. |
thus want of uniformity, the condition of motion, is produced. |
and when he has made reason and spirit sit down on the ground obediently on either side of their sovereign, and taught them to know their place, he compels the one to think only of how lesser sums may be turned into larger ones, and will not allow the |
dem.-since abc is an isosceles triangle, and the angle b is right, each of the other angles is half a right angle; therefore bao is half a right angle. in like manner abo is half a right angle; hence the angle bao equal abo; therefore i. vi. |
heard that an egyptian offered any violence to a crocodile, an ibis, or a cat. what do you think, then? do not the egyptians esteem their sacred bull, their apis, as a deity? yes, by hercules! |
impartial by both parties. private citizens shall have their disputes decided according to the laws of their several countries. |
twenty three. what is the magnitude of the rectangle of the segments of a chord drawn through a point three.sixty five metres distant from the centre of a circle whose radius is four.twenty five metres? |
i. this menedemus was one of those who belonged to the school of phdo; and he was one of those who are called theopropid, being the son of clisthenes, a man of noble family, but a poor man and a builder. |
for what is white will not be one either in the sense that it is continuous or in the sense that it must be defined in only one way. 'whiteness' will be different from 'what has whiteness'. |
say the opposite of that which actually 'is' in an unqualified sense: for although that which is 'not-white' or 'not-good' may nevertheless he in motion accidentally (for example that which is 'not-white' might be a man), yet that which is without |
we ought to consider as a proof of what i now advance, that the best lawgivers themselves were those in the middle rank of life, amongst whom was solon, as is evident from his poems, and lycurgus, for he was not a king, and charondas, and indeed most |
for 'moist' is that which contains moisture of its-own deep within it ('sodden' being that which is deeply penetrated by foreign mosture), whereas 'solidigied' is that which has lost this inner moisture. |
man's duty to do, he may rightfully be made responsible to society for not doing. a person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. |
for there was an extreme inequality amongst them, and their state was overloaded with a multitude of indigent and necessitous persons, while its whole wealth had centered upon a very few. |
neverthelesse, because the care of the summe of the businesse of the common-wealth taketh up his whole time, it were not convenient for him to apply himself in person to that particular. |
meanwhile, as i was saying, clemency is what makes the great distinction between kings and tyrants. |
are such as to act upon one another and to suffer action from one another; while other things, viz. agents which have not the same matter as their patients, act without themselves suffering action. |
strength and self-sufficiency of youth with the moderation of age in the institution of your senate. |
the words have been taken to mean: you must flee from the enemy as quickly as an escaping hare; but this is rightly rejected by tu mu. |
the affections peculiar to the tongue are of various kinds, and, like many other affections, are caused by contraction and dilation. |
ionians who landed in sicily flying from the medes, and the samians in their turn not long afterwards by anaxilas, tyrant of rhegium, the town was by him colonized with a mixed population, and its name changed to messina, after his old country. |
they maintained no kind of intercourse with one another, and were consequently strangers to vanity, deference, esteem and contempt; they had not the least idea of meum and tuum , and no true conception of justice; they looked upon every violence to which |
again, a further difficulty may be raised. how is it, it may be asked, that whereas in local change both remaining and moving may be natural or unnatural, in the other changes this is not so? e.g. |
it is wrong, however, to suppose, as some assert, that coming-to-be and passing-away in the unqualified and complete sense are distinctively defined by 'association' and 'dissociation', while the change that takes place in what is continuous is |
then she went up close to him and said, "fear not, diomed, to do battle with the trojans, for i have set in your heart the spirit of your knightly father tydeus. moreover, i have withdrawn the veil from your eyes, that you know gods and men apart. |
if our own means are sufficient, and we can gain him with these, we shall be only too glad; but if not, then we are to spend the money of your friends as well. |
when he sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written, amidst a swarming population, let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting |
and the seed having life, and becoming endowed with respiration, produces in that part in which it respires a lively desire of emission, and thus creates in us the love of procreation. |
whereas, it is just when i see the star of his good fortune rising, that i have come to divine the secret of his character. |
glauc. nay, to speak the truth, these are matters i have not thoroughly gone into. |
he himself survived him but a short time, coming not far behind in death, as he did in age and renown, in all respects, a most loving brother. |
we rejoin that we did not found the colony to be insulted by them, but to be their head and to be regarded with a proper respect. |
and we may say that only by an effort of metaphysical imagination can we hope to understand plato from his own point of view; we must not ask for consistency. |
again, if the weight of a greater body is greater than that of a less, the weight of gb will be greater than that of fb; and thus the weight of the finite body is greater than that of the infinite. |
doing a hundred li in order to wrest an advantage, the leaders of all your three divisions will fall into the hands of the enemy. |
what is potentially flesh or bone has not yet its own 'nature', and does not exist until it receives the form specified in the definition, which we name in defining what flesh or bone is. |
it is very certain, at any rate, that once there was no pond here, and now there is one; and this indian fable does not in any respect conflict with the account of that ancient settler whom i have mentioned, who remembers so well when he first came here |
"though we, or an angell from heaven preach any other gospell unto you, than that wee have preached unto you, let him bee accursed." |
but from an insatiable love of gold and silver, every man will stoop to any art or contrivance, seemly or unseemly, in the hope of becoming rich; and will make no objection to performing any action, holy, or unholy and utterly base; if only like a beast |
nineteen. that a man should be busy in thinking, and yet not retain it the next moment, very improbable. |
now we have discussed 'indivisible planes' in the preceding treatise.' |
but we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness. we snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of god, which many summers and many winters must ripen. |
of the supplement of their sum.-catalan. |
but like the painters who, finding themselves unable to represent equally well on a plain surface all the different faces of a solid body, select one of the chief, on which alone they make the light fall, and throwing the rest into the shade, allow them |
suspend their alien acts in favour of us and our allies, there being nothing in the treaty to prevent either one or the other: that we will leave the cities independent, if independent we found them when we made the treaty, and when the lacedaemonians |
as if good fortune were a thing inconsistent with good conscience, men never grow good but in evil fortune. good fortune is to me a singular spur to modesty and moderation: an entreaty wins, a threat checks me; favour makes me bend, fear stiffens me. |
passage to something farther; a porch, which leads to a greater, and vastly different building; a prologue, which serves only to introduce the piece, and give it more grace and propriety? |
further, since to be lighter is to have fewer of these homogeneous parts and to be heavier is to have more, and air, water, and fire are composed of the same triangles, the only difference being in the number of such parts, which must therefore explain |
labor is a certain exercise of the mind or body, in some employment or undertaking of serious trouble and importance; but pain is a sharp motion in the body, disagreeable to our senses.--both these feelings, the greeks, whose language is more copious than |
why then do you seek advantage in anything else than in that in which you have learned that advantage is? |
it is a priori (morally) necessary to produce the summum bonum by freedom of will: therefore the condition of its possibility must rest solely on a priori principles of cognition. |
being. a sufficient evidence of this is that nothing comes into being without itself moving somehow and acting, but a thing can be destroyed even if it does not move at all. |
of as doubtful and uncertain signification as those of substances or mixed modes; and much more than those of simple ideas. |
the expediency of aggressive or defensive tactics; and the fundamental laws of human nature: these are things that must most certainly be studied. |
encomium refers to what he has actually done; the mention of accessories, such as good birth and education, merely helps to make our story credible-good fathers are likely to have good sons, and good training is likely to produce good character. |
where things derive their motion from something else we distinguished the cases in which the motion is unnatural: we are left with those that are to be contrasted with the others by reason of the fact that the motion is natural. |
that being so, the slower will in the same present traverse a distance less than ab, say ag. but since the slower will have occupied the whole present in traversing ag, the quicker will occupy less than this in traversing it. |
in fine, it is not easy to determine what is the truth. |
of bone he made a globe which he placed around the brain, leaving a narrow opening, and around the marrow of the neck and spine he formed the vertebrae, like hinges, which extended from the head through the whole of the trunk. |
objective reality to the result (e.g., the causal connection of things and changes in the world), but in order thoroughly to satisfy my inquiring reason in respect of it. |
ita ne hostis quidem et potentis et bellum ultro inferentis interitum cum scelere approbavit. thirty six |
and as every one else kept silence, he, disapproving of what he saw, bade the servants bring in the supper; but the person who had invited him said that he was waiting for the secretary of the council. |
o, by what name, for thou above all these, above mankind, or aught than mankind higher, surpassest far my naming; how may i adore thee, author of this universe, and all this good to man? |
individually and in their tribes are portions. for the original of the universe contains in itself all intelligible beings, just as this world comprehends us and all other visible creatures. |
they can do with all, the ardour of society ravishing particular judgments. |
if we compare this language with the statement of the encyclopaedia we can see how for the moment hegel's eye is engrossed with the glory of the ideal nation. |
brought to you, believe it the highest impiety to prefer life to reputation, and for the sake of life, to lose the causes of living." |
contrary places alike. (by contrarieties of place i mean up and down, back and front, and right and left; and the contrary oppositions of movements are determined by those of places.) one of the motions, then, would be ineffective, for if the two motions |
now the whole included within the extreme circumference must be composed of all physical and sensible body, because there neither is, nor can come into being, any body outside the heaven. |
now, if there is no void at all, and if, as those who take this view say, there is no expansion of bodies, the impossibility of this is manifest: and if there is void and expansion, there is no accounting for the fact that the body which results from |
in the direction of the outermost part of the universe, and the outermost part itself, are up. |
in early life he fancies that he has mastered them: but he is also mastered by them; and in language (sophist) which may be compared with the hesitating tone of the timaeus, he confesses in his later years that they are full of obscurity to him. |
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yet, what i can, i grant; when, wafted o'er, the chief is landed on the latian shore, whatever ships escape the raging storms, at my command shall change their fading forms to nymphs divine, and plow the wat'ry way, like dotis and the daughters of the |
we are no other than a moving row of magic shadow-shapes that come and go round with the sun-illumined lantern held in midnight by the master of the show; |
that is the sort of thing which will be appropriate if we have such strains at all; and let the apparel of the singers be, not circlets and ornaments of gold, but the reverse. enough of all this. |
in particular which serve to good administration of a house or of a state, (two) and in general to the proper handling of man and human affairs. |
sect. thirty two. but the chief matter of property being now not the fruits of the earth, and the beasts that subsist on it, but the earth itself; as that which takes in and carries with it all the rest; i think it is plain, that property in that too is |
thirty nine. place a given triangle so that its three sides shall touch three given circles. |
this man wishes to be considered especially fashionable, that man to be thought especially learned: one cannot bear pride, another cannot bear obstinacy. one thinks it beneath him to be angry with his slaves, another is cruel at home, but gentle abroad. |
this is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the old and new testaments. |
it is true that at any moment it is always over against something stationary: but it is not at rest: for at a moment it is not possible for anything to be either in motion or at rest. |
trusting to the protection of the temple, hindered too by secret accomplices in the revolt, who embarrassed their plans, they had constructed neither fosse nor rampart; nor had they removed their old men and women, leaving their youth alone to face the |
such must he be for all the world, that is truly simple and good, as he whose arm-holes are offensive, that whosoever stands by, as soon as ever he comes near him, may as it were smell him whether he will or no. |
"'tis right that she who slays her lord should die. " |
for this maligner of the general good, if still we fear his force, he must be woo'd; his haughty godhead we with pray'rs implore, your scepter to release, and our just rights restore. |
until the circles are bent and disordered and their motion becomes irregular. you may imagine a position of the body in which the head is resting upon the ground, and the legs are in the air, and the top is bottom and the left right. |
these premises clearly give the conclusion that there is in nature some bodily substance other than the formations we know, prior to them all and more divine than they. but it may also be proved as follows. |
however, i think an attentive reader will see that i have already answered their propositions; for all their arguments are founded on the hypothesis that extended substance is composed of parts, and such a hypothesis i have shown (prop. xii., and coroll. |
the orator must also avoid using jests ready prepared, such as do not arise out of the occasion, but are brought from home; for they are usually frigid. and he must spare friendships and dignities. |
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