Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes, Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a MagistrateHarper & Brothers, 1855 - 343 من الصفحات |
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... tion of things one to another , with a regard to which the will of God always chooses , and which ought likewise to determine the wills of all subordinate rational beings . These eternal differences make it fit and reasonable for the ...
... tion of things one to another , with a regard to which the will of God always chooses , and which ought likewise to determine the wills of all subordinate rational beings . These eternal differences make it fit and reasonable for the ...
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... tion . In this division ( although an omission is of the worst consequence in divisions of this kind ) , two things are omitted ; for we are accustomed to deliberate not only whether a thing be virtuous or shameful in itself , but , of ...
... tion . In this division ( although an omission is of the worst consequence in divisions of this kind ) , two things are omitted ; for we are accustomed to deliberate not only whether a thing be virtuous or shameful in itself , but , of ...
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... tion which arouses the spirit and makes it more strenuous for action . The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth . Therefore , when relaxed from our necessary cares and concerns , we then covet to see ...
... tion which arouses the spirit and makes it more strenuous for action . The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth . Therefore , when relaxed from our necessary cares and concerns , we then covet to see ...
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... tion of promises are the following : " 1. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible . 2. Promises are not binding where the performance is unlawful . 3. Promises are not binding where they con- tradict a former ...
... tion of promises are the following : " 1. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible . 2. Promises are not binding where the performance is unlawful . 3. Promises are not binding where they con- tradict a former ...
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... tion for property but punishment upon the offender . A simple declara- tion was without any condition , as when an injury could not be repaired ; or when war was first declared by the other party . " - See Grotius , lib 3 . chap . 3. De ...
... tion for property but punishment upon the offender . A simple declara- tion was without any condition , as when an injury could not be repaired ; or when war was first declared by the other party . " - See Grotius , lib 3 . chap . 3. De ...
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actions advantage Africanus agreeable Antipater appear authority body Cæsar Caius called Carthaginians Cato chap character Cicero consider consul consulship Cratippus death delight desire despise discourse duty enemy Ennius evil excellent exist expedient father feel fortune friends friendship give glory greater greatest Greek happiness honor human immortal interest justice kind labor Lacedæmonians Lælius learning likewise live Lucius Lucius Minucius Basilus mankind manner Marcus Marcus Cato Marcus Crassus matter means mind moral nature never noble oath observed old age opinion ourselves pain Panatius passion person philosophers Plato pleasure Pompey possess principle promise Publius Crassus pursuits Pyrrhus Pythagoras Quintus reason regard Religio Medici rich Roman Rome sake Samnites Scævola Scipio seems senate sentiments Sheep extra slaves Socrates soul speak spirit Stoics Tarentum Themistocles things thought Tiberius Gracchus tion truth virtue virtuous Wherefore wisdom wise wish worthy Xenophon
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الصفحة 311 - You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella, For taking bribes here of the Sardians; Wherein my letters, praying on his side, Because I knew the man, were slighted off. BRU. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. CAS. In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.
الصفحة 258 - Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed.
الصفحة 113 - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
الصفحة 280 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
الصفحة 258 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I...
الصفحة 5 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
الصفحة 254 - There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
الصفحة 219 - He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. In youth, he must lay up knowledge for his support, when his powers of acting shall forsake him; and in age forbear to animadvert with rigour on faults which experience only can correct.
الصفحة 258 - Morpheus; and that those abstracted and ecstatic souls do walk about in their own corpse, as spirits with the bodies they assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them.