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页 |
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... regard to the choice of his subordinate officers , and the degree of trust to be reposed in them . He earnestly reproves him , but with much fraternal tenderness and affection , for his irritability of temper ; and concludes with a beau ...
... regard to the choice of his subordinate officers , and the degree of trust to be reposed in them . He earnestly reproves him , but with much fraternal tenderness and affection , for his irritability of temper ; and concludes with a beau ...
第4页
... 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 creatures so to act ; they cause it to be ...
... 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 creatures so to act ; they cause it to be ...
第14页
... regard to matters of private property . Thus , as every man holds his own , each should possess that portion which fell to his share of those things that by nature were common ; and it follows , that no man can covet another's property ...
... regard to matters of private property . Thus , as every man holds his own , each should possess that portion which fell to his share of those things that by nature were common ; and it follows , that no man can covet another's property ...
第24页
... regard to the words but not the meaning of them ; for in a promise , what you thought , and not what you said , is always to be consid- ered . ' But our forefathers set us a most eminent example of justice toward an enemy ; for when a ...
... regard to the words but not the meaning of them ; for in a promise , what you thought , and not what you said , is always to be consid- ered . ' But our forefathers set us a most eminent example of justice toward an enemy ; for when a ...
第26页
... regard to merit ; and , consequently , examine both the morals of the party to whom we are generous , and his dis- position toward us , together with the general good of society , and how far he may have already contributed to our own ...
... regard to merit ; and , consequently , examine both the morals of the party to whom we are generous , and his dis- position toward us , together with the general good of society , and how far he may have already contributed to our own ...
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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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第311页 - 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.
第258页 - 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.
第113页 - 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.
第280页 - 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...
第258页 - 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...
第5页 - 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.
第254页 - 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.
第219页 - 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.
第258页 - 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.