 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...Archytas of Tarentum,f and 'cum non sis qui fueris non esse cur velis vivere.' Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason,...Certainly, great persons had need to borrow other men's "pinions to think themselves happy, for if they judge by their own feeling they cannot find it, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...is a melancholy thing. " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere?" Nay, retire men cannot when they would ; neither will they when it were reason...which require the shadow : like old townsmen, that \v ill be stilt sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer ag« 2C9 Certainly great persons... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but nre impatient of privntencss, even in age and sickness which require the shadow; like old townsmen that will be s'.ill sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer nge to scorn. Certainly, great persons... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere." Nay, retire men cannot -!<'=''& C! % % privatenpss ever in age ana sickness, which require the 'shadow ".*- like ГЧ Ч oJ in act ; and>that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...to look on. 15. The lovers of great place are impatient of privateness, even in age, which requires the shadow: like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though there they offer age to scorn. 16. In evil, the best condition is, not to will: the next, not to can.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...in that which I have heard our old men relate to have been commonly said by Archytas of Tarentum,3 and vivere." Nay, retire men can not when they would,...but are impatient of privateness, even in age and eickuesa which require the shadow; like old townsmen that will be still sitting at their street door,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere." 2 Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason...will be still sitting at their street door, though 1 Montaigne has treated this subject before Bacon, under the title of De Pincommodite de la Grandeur,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1856 - 430 pages
...Archytas of Tarentum,f and 'cum non sis qui fueris non esse cur velis vivere.' Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, evcn in age and sickness which require the shadow; like old townsmen that will he still sitting at... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...is a melancholy thing : Cum nan tit, qui futrii, non t.we, cur vdit vivere* ? Nay, retire men cannot when they would; neither will they when it were reason : but are impatient of privatcncss, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen that will be still... | |
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Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will' be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they... 
