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Page vii
... question and answer and much more of continuous exposition . To explain the speed with which Cicero's philo- sophical writings were produced we have to re- member that they do not claim to be original work . In answer to the question ...
... question and answer and much more of continuous exposition . To explain the speed with which Cicero's philo- sophical writings were produced we have to re- member that they do not claim to be original work . In answer to the question ...
Page xviii
... questions were raised which led the later Stoics to abate the rigidity of their teaching . If no actual instance of the " wise man " could be named , did that mean that all mankind were fools ? Were there no degrees ' amongst the good ...
... questions were raised which led the later Stoics to abate the rigidity of their teaching . If no actual instance of the " wise man " could be named , did that mean that all mankind were fools ? Were there no degrees ' amongst the good ...
Page xxii
... questions of morality , Cicero uses the freedom of opinion , which he claimed , to dissociate himself entirely from Carneades and his negative attitude . From being a supporter of Carneades and later of Antiochus he passes to the Stoic ...
... questions of morality , Cicero uses the freedom of opinion , which he claimed , to dissociate himself entirely from Carneades and his negative attitude . From being a supporter of Carneades and later of Antiochus he passes to the Stoic ...
Page xxv
... 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 in the interests of ...
... 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 in the interests of ...
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... dignified way ; and beyond question they borrowed from the Greeks , and the same applies to medicine and geography , but not to engineering , law or war . 3 maiores certe melioribus temperaverunt et institutis et legibus . Quid B 2.
... dignified way ; and beyond question they borrowed from the Greeks , and the same applies to medicine and geography , but not to engineering , law or war . 3 maiores certe melioribus temperaverunt et institutis et legibus . Quid B 2.
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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.