Plato's GorgiasBell, 1864 - 146 pages |
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Page vi
... better aware than myself : still this union of the letter with the spirit is and must be , the ideal of a perfect translation , and as such should always be kept in view by any one who attempts faithfully to represent any work of ...
... better aware than myself : still this union of the letter with the spirit is and must be , the ideal of a perfect translation , and as such should always be kept in view by any one who attempts faithfully to represent any work of ...
Page xxx
... better representative of the false objects and rules by which men direct and regulate their conduct in life could have been selected than rhetoric , which stands for the career of politics as vulgarly understood and the pursuits of ...
... better representative of the false objects and rules by which men direct and regulate their conduct in life could have been selected than rhetoric , which stands for the career of politics as vulgarly understood and the pursuits of ...
Page xlii
... better than injustice , however it may be attended with impunity and crowned with success and worldly prosperity , because this alone constitutes the soul's health , and is alone in conformity with its real nature , being the principle ...
... better than injustice , however it may be attended with impunity and crowned with success and worldly prosperity , because this alone constitutes the soul's health , and is alone in conformity with its real nature , being the principle ...
Page xlv
... better to die than to live . The notion that to suffer wrong is better and nobler than to inflict it and such like are the inventions of the weaker majority who constitute society ; these have agreed amongst themselves to encourage such ...
... better to die than to live . The notion that to suffer wrong is better and nobler than to inflict it and such like are the inventions of the weaker majority who constitute society ; these have agreed amongst themselves to encourage such ...
Page liv
... better , than the wise and brave who are good : which is absurd . The same reductio ad absurdum is thus briefly stated , Phileb . 55 B : " How absurd it would be for a man when he feels pain to be obliged to say that he is then a bad ...
... better , than the wise and brave who are good : which is absurd . The same reductio ad absurdum is thus briefly stated , Phileb . 55 B : " How absurd it would be for a man when he feels pain to be obliged to say that he is then a bad ...
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Page xix - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.