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Page xxiii
... follow . The transitional particles occasionally seem to refer to some thought or passage other than that which immediately precedes . In fact he appears at times to be employing a conversational logic as well as conversational grammar ...
... follow . The transitional particles occasionally seem to refer to some thought or passage other than that which immediately precedes . In fact he appears at times to be employing a conversational logic as well as conversational grammar ...
Page xxiv
... follow him , and not to exhaust their interest either by the form or matter of what was meant for their benefit . He was a preacher , but a preacher in polite or even corrupt society , dealing with men who respected his pre - eminence ...
... follow him , and not to exhaust their interest either by the form or matter of what was meant for their benefit . He was a preacher , but a preacher in polite or even corrupt society , dealing with men who respected his pre - eminence ...
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... follow that those who died a hundred thousand years ago are wretched , or rather everyone who has been born . A. That is precisely my opinion . M. Tell me , pray ! You are not terrified , are you , by the stories of three - headed ...
... follow that those who died a hundred thousand years ago are wretched , or rather everyone who has been born . A. That is precisely my opinion . M. Tell me , pray ! You are not terrified , are you , by the stories of three - headed ...
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... follows that those who are not yet born are wretched now , because they do not exist , and that we , if we are to be wretched after death , have been wretched before we were born . My recollections previous to my birth do not report me ...
... follows that those who are not yet born are wretched now , because they do not exist , and that we , if we are to be wretched after death , have been wretched before we were born . My recollections previous to my birth do not report me ...
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... follows the teaching of the New Academy re- presented by Carneades who said that though certitude is impossible , various degrees of probability are within our reach . M. Dying I shun : of being dead I nothing 20 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO.
... follows the teaching of the New Academy re- presented by Carneades who said that though certitude is impossible , various degrees of probability are within our reach . M. Dying I shun : of being dead I nothing 20 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO.
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aegritudine aegritudo alii aliquid animi animo animus apud Aristotle atque autem beata beatus body bonis bonum Carneades Chrysippus Cicero corporis Cyrenaics death dicere dici disorders distress dolore dolorem eius enim Ennius eorum Epicurus ergo esset etiam etsi Eurypylus evil fear Graeci Greek haec happy homines idem igitur illa illi illud inquit ipsa ipse ipsi ipsum ista Itaque libido lust malis malum melius metus mihi modo modum mortem multa nature neque nihil nisi nobis nulla numquam nunc omnes omni omnia omnino omnium pain Panaetius paullo Peripatetics perturbationes philosophers Plato pleasure posse possit potest Pythagoras quae quam quia quibus quid quidem quidquam quis quod rebus rerum saepe sapiens satis semper sine sint Socrates solum soul Stoics sunt tamen Theophrastus things tibi vero videtur virtue vita vitam wise wretched Xenocrates δὲ καὶ τὸ
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Page 2 - Graecis et litteris et doctoribus percipi non posset, sed meum semper iudicium fuit omnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Graecos aut accepta ab illis fecisse meliora, quae quidem digna statuissent, in quibus 2 elaborarent.
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 26 - Platonem semper excipio — praestans et ingenio et diligentia, cum quattuor nota illa genera principiorum esset complexus, e quibus omnia orerentur, quintam quandam naturam censet esse, e qua sit mens. cogitare enim et providere et discere et docere et invenire aliquid et...
Page 188 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 194 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 76 - ... and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time...
Page 4 - ... oratio Catonis, in qua obiecit ut probrum M. Nobiliori, quod is in provinciam poetas duxisset; duxerat autem consul ille in Aetoliam, ut scimus, Ennium.
Page 430 - ... o vitae philosophia dux, o virtutis indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine te esse potuisset?
Page 80 - ... quicquid est illud quod sentit, quod sapit, quod vivit, quod viget, caeleste et divinum ob eamque rem aeternum sit necesse est.
Page 78 - 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.