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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... relation to these subjects , and perceive how far these changes have been occasioned by the promulgation of the Christian religion . A subsidiary design has been to show , by parallel passages , to what extent the writings of modern ...
... relation to these subjects , and perceive how far these changes have been occasioned by the promulgation of the Christian religion . A subsidiary design has been to show , by parallel passages , to what extent the writings of modern ...
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... relation to other things . He must ascribe the same law of perception to every being to whom he as- cribes thought . He cannot , therefore , doubt that all the relations of all things to all must have always been present to the Eternal ...
... relation to other things . He must ascribe the same law of perception to every being to whom he as- cribes thought . He cannot , therefore , doubt that all the relations of all things to all must have always been present to the Eternal ...
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... relation between two things as much as the physician who employs an emetic after the poison , acts upon his be- lief of the tendency of that remedy to preserve life , which is another re- lation between two things . All men who seek a ...
... relation between two things as much as the physician who employs an emetic after the poison , acts upon his be- lief of the tendency of that remedy to preserve life , which is another re- lation between two things . All men who seek a ...
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... relations ; all which deliberation falls under the category of utility . The third kind of doubtful deliberation is , when an apparent utility seems to clash with moral rectitude ; for when utility hurries us to itself , and virtue , on ...
... relations ; all which deliberation falls under the category of utility . The third kind of doubtful deliberation is , when an apparent utility seems to clash with moral rectitude ; for when utility hurries us to itself , and virtue , on ...
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... relations or comparison of ideas as are the proper objects of our intellectual faculties . Though the instinct be different , yet still it is an instinct which teaches a man to avoid the fire , as much as that which teaches a bird ...
... relations or comparison of ideas as are the proper objects of our intellectual faculties . Though the instinct be different , yet still it is an instinct which teaches a man to avoid the fire , as much as that which teaches a bird ...
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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.