Cicero's Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age ; Lælius, an Essay on Friendship ; Paradoxes ; Scipio's Dream ; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a MagistrateHarper, 1855 - 343 Seiten |
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... Cæsar , who , in order to obtain that direction in the government which the wildness of his imagination had planned out , violated all laws , divine and human . But what is deplorable in this matter is , that the desire after honor ...
... Cæsar , who , in order to obtain that direction in the government which the wildness of his imagination had planned out , violated all laws , divine and human . But what is deplorable in this matter is , that the desire after honor ...
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... Cæsar took property from its just owners and transferred it to strangers , in so doing they ought not to be accounted generous ; for nothing can be generous that is not at the same time just . Our next part of circumspection is , that ...
... Cæsar took property from its just owners and transferred it to strangers , in so doing they ought not to be accounted generous ; for nothing can be generous that is not at the same time just . Our next part of circumspection is , that ...
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... Cæsar , the son of Lucius , it was greater in degree , and more elaborate . In their cotemporaries , Marcus Scaurus , and young Marcus Drusus , there was a remarkable seriousness ; in Caius Lælius great hilarity ; but in his friend ...
... Cæsar , the son of Lucius , it was greater in degree , and more elaborate . In their cotemporaries , Marcus Scaurus , and young Marcus Drusus , there was a remarkable seriousness ; in Caius Lælius great hilarity ; but in his friend ...
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... Cæsar in Africa ? Yet it had been perhaps blamable in the latter , had they put themselves to death , because their lives were less severe , and their moral natures more pliable . But it became Cato , who had by per- petual perseverance ...
... Cæsar in Africa ? Yet it had been perhaps blamable in the latter , had they put themselves to death , because their lives were less severe , and their moral natures more pliable . But it became Cato , who had by per- petual perseverance ...
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... Cæsar , brother to the elder Catulus , exceeded all in wit and humor ; insomuch that even in the forensic style of speaking , he with his conversational manner , surpassed the energetic eloquence of others . There- fore , in all those ...
... Cæsar , brother to the elder Catulus , exceeded all in wit and humor ; insomuch that even in the forensic style of speaking , he with his conversational manner , surpassed the energetic eloquence of others . There- fore , in all those ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 240 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Seite 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.
Seite 204 - Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Seite 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.
Seite 174 - It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood : who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is 'Nunc dimittis,' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Seite 301 - Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
Seite 302 - Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught?
Seite 265 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Seite 272 - Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it.
Seite 206 - THE love of Retirement has, in all ages, adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed every thing generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.