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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... this is said in ostentation ; for , while I yield the superiority in philosophy to many , if I claim to myself the province peculiar to an orator - that of speaking with pro- priety , perspicuity , and elegance - I seem , 1.
... this is said in ostentation ; for , while I yield the superiority in philosophy to many , if I claim to myself the province peculiar to an orator - that of speaking with pro- priety , perspicuity , and elegance - I seem , 1.
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... seem , since I have spent my life in that pursuit , to lay claim to it with a certain degree of right . Wherefore , my ... seems to be what they have delivered and enjoined concerning the duties of mankind ; for there can be no state of ...
... seem , since I have spent my life in that pursuit , to lay claim to it with a certain degree of right . Wherefore , my ... seems to be what they have delivered and enjoined concerning the duties of mankind ; for there can be no state of ...
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... seem chiefly to refer to the regu- lation of ordinary life , and of them we are to treat in this book . But there is another division of duty for one is called a mean duty , the other a perfect duty . If I mistake not , the complete or ...
... seem chiefly to refer to the regu- lation of ordinary life , and of them we are to treat in this book . But there is another division of duty for one is called a mean duty , the other a perfect duty . If I mistake not , the complete or ...
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... seems to clash with moral rectitude ; for when utility hurries us to itself , and virtue , on the other hand , seems to call us back , it happens that the mind is distracted in the choice , and these occasion a double anxiety in ...
... seems to clash with moral rectitude ; for when utility hurries us to itself , and virtue , on the other hand , seems to call us back , it happens that the mind is distracted in the choice , and these occasion a double anxiety in ...
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... seems evident that animals , as well as men , learn many things from experience , and infer that the same events will always follow from the same causes . By this principle they become acquainted with the more obvious properties of ...
... seems evident that animals , as well as men , learn many things from experience , and infer that the same events will always follow from the same causes . By this principle they become acquainted with the more obvious properties of ...
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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.