The Anabasis, Or Expedition of Cyrus and the Memorabilia of Socrates

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Harper & Brothers, 1894 - 518 pàgines
 

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Pàgina xi - because he judiciously made choice of human nature for the object of his thoughts, an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning as it is of more consequence to adjust the true nature and measures of right and wrong than to settle the distances of the
Pàgina 472 - and I am still collecting, intending to persevere till I get as many as I possibly can." 9. " By Juno," rejoined Socrates, " I feel admiration for you, because you have not preferred acquiring treasures of silver and gold rather than of wisdom ; for it is plain you consider that silver and gold are unable to
Pàgina 382 - 10. You, Antipho, seem to think that happiness consists in luxury and extravagance ; but I think that to want nothing is to resemble the gods, and that to want as little as possible is to make the nearest approach to the gods ; that the Divine nature is perfection, and that to be nearest to the Divine nature is to
Pàgina 474 - off their property, would he not do what was just ?" " Certainly," said Euthydemus ; " but I thought at first that you asked these questions only with reference to our friends." " Then," said Socrates, " all that we have placed under the head of injustice, we must also
Pàgina 471 - from any person, nor, though I heard of some that were skilled in speaking and acting, have I sought to converse with them ; nor have I been anxious that any one of the learned should become my master ; but I have done the exact contrary ; for I have constantly avoided not only learning
Pàgina 320 - corpses of men and bodies of horses, who had perished in the preceding winter. So usual an event is this, that there is a custom, or law, in the mountains of Armenia, that every summer the villagers go out to the more dangerous passes and bury the dead whom they are sure to find.
Pàgina 447 - above all things to do what is right. 2. What Aristippus had asked him, was, ' whether he knew any thing good,' in order that if he should say any such thing as food, or drink, or money, or health, or strength, or courage, ho might prove that it was sometimes an evil. But Socrates, reflecting that if
Pàgina 478 - and to prefer them to themselves ; they place in them, their hopes of good, and love them, on all these accounts, beyond all other men. 29. But those, again, who do not know what they are doing, who make an unhappy choice in life, and are unsuccessful in what they attempt, not
Pàgina 431 - and with having received so many wounds from the enemy (he then drew asido his robe, and showed the scars of the wounds), but have elected Antisthenes, who has never served in the heavy-armed infantry, nor done any thing remarkable in the cavalry, and -who indeed knows nothing, but how to get money.
Pàgina 485 - and undecaying, obeying his will swifter than thought and without irregularity, is himself manifested only in the performance of his mighty works, but is invisible to us while he regulates them. 14. Consider also that the sun, which appears manifest to all, does not allow men to contemplate him too curiously, but, if any

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