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... evil in a world that was divine ? Cicero rejected the fatalism and pantheism of the Stoics . He was repelled by their pedantic forma- lism , 3 he disliked their uncouthness of manner and the contempt of ordinary feeling , which they ...
... evil in a world that was divine ? Cicero rejected the fatalism and pantheism of the Stoics . He was repelled by their pedantic forma- lism , 3 he disliked their uncouthness of manner and the contempt of ordinary feeling , which they ...
Page xxv
... evil , but for raising a question which for purposes of practical morality is indifferent.5 He accepts the division of the soul into rational and irrational parts , contrary to the teaching of the Stoics , but declares that this is done ...
... evil , but for raising a question which for purposes of practical morality is indifferent.5 He accepts the division of the soul into rational and irrational parts , contrary to the teaching of the Stoics , but declares that this is done ...
Page xxvi
... evil is left open.2 The Stoic teaching is praised as manliest and bravest : 3 it may not be possible to carry it out , but it is best for man to set the moral demand high , even if it is beyond him . 3 In dealing with the other ...
... evil is left open.2 The Stoic teaching is praised as manliest and bravest : 3 it may not be possible to carry it out , but it is best for man to set the moral demand high , even if it is beyond him . 3 In dealing with the other ...
Page xxxi
... evil . " wretchedness to dead and living who have to die , all must be wretched always , 9 . But death is not an evil for either . The terrors of the lower world are fictions , 10. If the dead do not exist they cannot be wretched , 11 ...
... evil . " wretchedness to dead and living who have to die , all must be wretched always , 9 . But death is not an evil for either . The terrors of the lower world are fictions , 10. If the dead do not exist they cannot be wretched , 11 ...
Page xxxii
... evil rather than from good , 83 , 84. Metellus , Priam , Pompey , 85 , 86. If men are deprived of good by death , death is no evil , for in death there is no sense of loss , 87 , 88 ; no misery , nothing hate- ful , 89 , 90. Wise men ...
... evil rather than from good , 83 , 84. Metellus , Priam , Pompey , 85 , 86. If men are deprived of good by death , death is no evil , for in death there is no sense of loss , 87 , 88 ; no misery , nothing hate- ful , 89 , 90. Wise men ...
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Page 8 - Latini dicuntur scripti inconsiderate ab optimis illis quidem viris, sed non satis eruditis. fieri autem potest, ut recte quis sentiat et id, quod sentit, polite eloqui non possit.
Page xxviii - Words, and more words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations.
Page 186 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 76 - Animorum nulla in terris origo inveniri potest; nihil enim est in animis mixtum atque concretum, aut quod ex terra natum atque fictum esse videatur, nihil ne aut umidum' quidem aut flabile aut igneum. His enim in naturis nihil inest, quod vim memoriae, mentis, cogitationis habeat, quod et praeterita teneat et futura provideat et complecti possit praesentia.
Page 432 - ... quaererent, sed visendi causa venirent studioseque perspicerent, quid ageretur et quo modo, item nos quasi in mercatus quandam celebritatem ex urbe aliqua sic in hanc vitam ex alia vita et natura...
Page 370 - Etenim ipsae se impellunt, ubi semel a ratione discessum est, ipsaque sibi imbecillitas indulget in altumque provehitur imprudens nee reperit locum consistendi.
Page 2 - Graecis et litteris 10 et doctoribus percipi non posset : sed meum semper judicium fuit, omnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Graecos : aut accepta ab illis fecisse meliora, quae quidem digna statuissent in quibus elaborarent. Nam mores et instituta vitae, resque domesticas ac familiares, nos profecto et melius tuemur et lautius ; rem vero publicam nostri majores certe melioribus temperaverunt et institutis et legibus.
Page xxviii - Hortensius. But this book altered my affections, and turned my prayers to Thyself, O Lord ; and made me have other purposes and desires.
Page 78 - Nee vero deus ipse, qui intelligitur a nobis, alio modo intelligi potest, nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera, segregata ab omni concretione mortali, omnia sentiens et movens, ipsaque praedita motu sempiterno.