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 pages |
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... never be put in competition with private advantage , or be violated for its sake . As to the minor duties the great maxim inculcated is , that nothing should be accounted useful or profitable but what is strictly virtuous ; and that ...
... never be put in competition with private advantage , or be violated for its sake . As to the minor duties the great maxim inculcated is , that nothing should be accounted useful or profitable but what is strictly virtuous ; and that ...
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... never then , from any other consideration than that of utility that we derive our notions of right and wrong ? I do not know ; I do not care . Whether moral sentiment can be originally conceived from any other sense than a view of ...
... never then , from any other consideration than that of utility that we derive our notions of right and wrong ? I do not know ; I do not care . Whether moral sentiment can be originally conceived from any other sense than a view of ...
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... never be guilty of the like in future , and that others may not be so forward to offend in the same manner . Now , in government the laws of war are to be most especially observed ; for since there are two manners of disputing , one by ...
... never be guilty of the like in future , and that others may not be so forward to offend in the same manner . Now , in government the laws of war are to be most especially observed ; for since there are two manners of disputing , one by ...
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... never terminates . " What can exceed the gentleness of this , to call those with whom you were at war by so soft an appellation ? It is true that length of time has affixed a harsher significa- tion to this word , which has now ceased ...
... never terminates . " What can exceed the gentleness of this , to call those with whom you were at war by so soft an appellation ? It is true that length of time has affixed a harsher significa- tion to this word , which has now ceased ...
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... never should exceed our abilities . For they who are more generous then their circumstances admit of are , first , guilty in this , that they wrong their relations ; because they bestow upon strangers those means which they might , with ...
... never should exceed our abilities . For they who are more generous then their circumstances admit of are , first , guilty in this , that they wrong their relations ; because they bestow upon strangers those means which they might , with ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.