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 MagistrateHenry G. Bohn, 1850 - 342 sivua |
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actions advantage affection Africanus agreeable Antipater appear authority body Caius called Carthaginians Cato chap character Cicero citizens consider consul consulship Cratippus death delight desire despise discourse duty enemy Ennius evil excellent existence expedient father feel fortune friends friendship give glory greatest Greek happiness honour human immortal interest justice kind labour Lælius learning likewise live Lucius Lucius Minucius Basilus mankind manner Marcus Marcus Cato Marcus Crassus matter means mind moral nature never noble oath object 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 slaves society Socrates soul speak spirit Stoics Tarentum Themistocles things thought Tiberius Gracchus tion truth tyrant virtue virtuous Wherefore wisdom wise wish worthy Xenophon
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Sivu 258 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Sivu 143 - Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : Cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare.
Sivu 254 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 302 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Sivu 254 - There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
Sivu 301 - We have already several times over lost a great part or perhaps the whole of our body, according to certain common established laws of nature ; yet we remain the same living agents : when we shall lose as great a part, or the whole, by another common established law of nature, death ; why may we not also remain the same...
Sivu 299 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Sivu 299 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Sivu 44 - It being thus manifest, that the power of kings and magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them, without a violation of their natural birthright...